Under a final rule released today, impacted payers will be required to send prior authorization decisions within 72 hours for urgent requests and seven calendar days for standard requests. The Centers ...

CMS is searching for an informatics expert to serve as chief health informatics officer and lead interoperability efforts among several federal agencies, according to a recent job posting. The ...

The past decade has witnessed an unprecedented and rapid pace of federal policy making intended to achieve interoperability of core electronic health record (EHR) data. This movement began in 2009 ...

More than half of providers and 43% of payers have yet to start work on the application programming interface requirements of the interoperability and prior authorization final rule, according to a ...

CMS finalized changes to the Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program for hospitals demonstrating meaningful use of certified EHRs in the 2024 Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System final ...

The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services has finalized a series of new rules related to the use of technology for electronic prescribing and prior authorization. In the rules, the Assistant ...

Last week in advance of HIMSS19, Microsoft announced the launch of Azure API for FHIR, the first in a series of APIs to help customers work with machine learning on protected health information in the ...