HHS and CMS’ regulations requiring all healthcare providers and payers to meet interoperability standards will start being enforced on June 30. The rule is the first phase of policies aimed at ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is launching a new initiative aimed at accelerating adoption of electronic prior ...

The proposed rule aims to improve prior authorization for prescription drugs by establishing and requiring electronic prior ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has opened registration for its seventh annual CMS & Health Level Seven International Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources Connectathon from July ...

On 17 January 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a final rule outlining new interoperability and prior authorization requirements for certain payors (Final Rule). 1 With ...

On July 1, a final rule by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) took effect that opens up patient access to healthcare data. When the interoperability rule was issued in 2020, former CMS ...

To fully realize the promise of digital quality measures, initiatives such as these must converge on a shared foundation – ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule (Final Rule) on Jan. 17, 2024. The Final Rule continues CMS' efforts to encourage ...

When I worked as an emergency room nurse, having access to a complete patient health history was not always guaranteed. I would need to retrieve patient records from outside the facility on a daily ...

In a newly proposed rule, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is changing prior authorization standards to speed up the time it takes for payers to approve the requests and is implementing ...

The rule aims to free data from silos to promote interoperability between payers and providers. On July 1, a final rule by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) takes effect, and aims to ...