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Nine Teams, One Mission: Meet the EHIgnite Phase 1 Winners
By Adam Wong – What started as a challenge to tame unwieldy single patient electronic health information (EHI) exports, often hundreds of pages long and hard to use, quickly became a nationwide surge of ingenuity, with nearly one hundred proposals pouring into the ONC EHIgnite Challenge.
ONC’s 2026 Approved SVAP Standards
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.
1B Records Exchanged through TEFCA
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced new steps to strengthen the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement™ (TEFCA®), the nationwide network that helps patients and healthcare providers securely share electronic health information.
The EHIgnite Challenge: Phase 1 Deadline Extended to May 20
The EHIgnite Challenge is a national ASTP/ONC innovation competition offering $490,000 to spark new innovation for tools that will export EHI into usable insights for patients, clinicians, and payers. Phase 1 NOW EXTENDED to May 20. Winners are invited to Phase 2.
What’s Happening at the ASTP/ONC: Nov. 2025
Supporting the adoption of health information technology and the promotion of nationwide, standards-based health information exchange to improve health care nationwide. Here is what is happening at the ASTP.
TEFCA RCE Monthly Informational Calls Resumed
The June TEFCA RCE Monthly Informational Call did happen lifting all communication blackouts we have been under since January. The meeting was kicked off by Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Dr. Thomas Keane.
EHR Association Shares Their Feedback to ONC and CMS
The EHR Association shared its feedback on two NPRMs recently: to ASTP/ONC regarding the 2025 Standards Version Advancement Process (SVAP), and to CMS regarding the FY 2026 IPPS proposed rule (CMS–1833–P).
Posnack Named Acting Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy at HHS
Steven Posnack, MS, MHS has been named Acting Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy and the National Coordinator for Health Information technology for the Department of Health and Human Services.