ASTP is pleased to welcome Dr. Thomas Keane as the new Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/National Coordinator for Health IT. His leadership will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of health IT and HHS's technology strategy.

The public comment period for the 2025 Standards Version Advancement Process (SVAP) is now open. ASTP is considering all comments submitted to the SVAP standards page until June 9 at 11:59 PM ET.  

The deadline for the Special Emphasis Notice (SEN) under the Leading Edge Acceleration Projects (LEAP) funding opportunity NAP-AX-22-001 has been extended to 12:00 ET on Friday April 25, 2025.

Ambulatory EHR vendor eClinicalWorks has been designated as a Qualified Health Information Network (QHIN) under the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA), which is being set up to enable the nationwide exchange of electronic health information (EHI) across disparate health information networks. “We anticipate TEFCA-based exchange will continue to accelerate this year and are excited to add eClinicalWorks to an increasingly deep roster of QHINs,” says Micky Tripathi, Ph.D., assistant secretary for technology policy

The Leading Edge Acceleration Projects (LEAP) in Health IT program issued a Special Emphasis Notice (SEN) for 2025. The SEN will fund two areas of emphasis. The first area focuses on demonstrating the readiness of FHIR-based Subscriptions for improving interactivity with third-party apps, and the second area focuses on identifying and testing innovative approaches that would inform future changes to the TEFCA infrastructure to increase adoption of Individual Access Service (IAS).