By Shawn Spurlock and Liz Turi – We are excited to announce the 2026 standards approved by the National Coordinator through ONC’s Standards Version Advancement Process (SVAP). This year, we highlight two important groups of standards.
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By Tharun Kumar Nallamothu – Lessons from Real Clinical Environments – Artificial intelligence in healthcare has reached a point where technical capabilities are no longer the primary limitation. Models can transcribe clinical conversations, extract insights, and support decision-making with increasing accuracy.
By Maithilee Mitra – It started with a cloud infrastructure project that should have been straightforward. An enterprise IT team was tasked with building a cloud environment for researchers and data scientists, call them data users, to analyze findings and contribute to a multi-site data warehouse.
By Maithilee Mitra – It started with a cloud infrastructure project that should have been straightforward. An enterprise IT team was tasked with building a cloud environment for researchers and data scientists, call them data users, to analyze findings and contribute to a multi-site data warehouse.
By Chris Rogowski – Hospitals across the U.S. are hoping that 2026 ends much differently than it began. In January, a difficult financial operating environment carried over from the prior year, as expenses and bad debt grew, while patient volumes declined. Expenses per calendar day rose 5% year-over-year in January, pushed higher by rising costs for drugs and labor.
By Lauren Sausser & Darius Tahir – Taking a page from the private insurance industry’s playbook, the Trump administration will launch a program next year to find out how much money an artificial intelligence algorithm could save the federal government by denying care to Medicare patients.
By Darius Tahir – At one call center in the Philippines, workers help Americans with diabetes or neurological conditions troubleshoot devices that monitor their health. Sometimes they get pressing calls: elderly patients who are alone and experiencing a medical emergency.
By Leigh Burchell – The current administration has made deregulation a central policy priority, aiming to reduce burden and costs in as many sectors of the economy as possible, including health care.
By Matt Fisher – Artificial intelligence has been the subject of no shortage of hype about its capabilities. As AI has evolved in the past few years it has often been touted as the force that will finally drive major changes in healthcare.