Policy and Legislation

The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement is now live, but the challenge is FHIR in TEFCA, says Don Rucker, chief strategy officer for 1upHealth and former national coordinator for Health IT at HHS.

FDA regulatory attorney Brigid Bondoc, partner and life sciences attorney at Morrison Foerster, helps companies control their risk.  

The AI landscape for health information technology is changing quickly, says Tom Hallisey, digital health strategy lead for the Healthcare Association of New York State.  

A merger between competitors that increases concentration and consolidates a market may substantially lessen competition, agencies say.

The American Medical Association recently released principles for AI development and deployment as a way to engage with Congress, says AMA President Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld, speaking during the HIMSS AI in Healthcare Forum.  

28 provider and payer organizations have made a voluntary commitment to move towards the safe, secure and trustworthy purchasing and use of AI. 

The HTI-1 final rule advances patient access, interoperability and standards, says HHS.

The House passed H.R. 5378, a bill aimed at transparency in hospital pricing that also addresses PBM spread pricing.

AHA supports the Lower Costs, More Transparency Act (H.R. 5378) provision that would suspend Medicaid disproportionate share reductions for two years.

Physicians preferred the answers to medical questions provided by Google's Med-PaLM to those written by other physicians, says Dr. Michael Howell, the company's chief clinical officer. He discussed the experimentation with and evolution of the medically tuned LLM.