At 12:00 noon on January 20, 2025, I will leave my role as the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy and National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Policy of HHS. My 4 years in this job has been an honor I never imagined I’d be so lucky to have.

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

A new report aims to understand the experiences of patients and health care providers with collecting and documenting social determinants of health (SDOH). The report explores the current experiences of providers and patients with SDOH, their views of what SDOH data elements are critical to document, how this documentation should occur in the future, and barriers to increased data collection, utilization, and exchange. 

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).  

Draft United States Core Data for Interoperability Version 6 (Draft USCDI v6) is now available! Draft USCDI v6 seeks to advance health data in a way that will benefit users of health IT. The comment period for Draft USCDI v6 is open through April 14, 2025, at 11:59 PM ET.