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.

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…

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…

The 11th annual Interoperability Standards Advisory (ISA) Reference Edition is now available. This year’s edition includes important alignment updates to the Administrative and Pharmacy sections, as well as smaller updates across other pages, including Public Health and Unique Device…

ASTP’s HTI-3 final rule reflects ASTP’s focused efforts to improve information sharing while protecting patient privacy. The final rule finalizes information blocking regulatory enhancements that were proposed in the HTI-2 Patient Engagement, Information Sharing, and Public Health…

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy (ASTP), released the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement^TM (TEFCA^TM) (HTI-2) final rule. 

ONC's HTI-2 proposed rule implements provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act and reflects ONC’s focused efforts to advance interoperability and improve information sharing among patients, providers, payers, and public health authorities.

The STAR HIE Program helped strengthen our nation’s public health emergency response capabilities. Read the final evaluation report which details the results and lessons learned from the program.

The effective date of ONC’s HTI-1 Final Rule is updated and is now March 11, 2024. This update provides for a 60-day delay in effective date from the date of publication in the Federal Register, which was January 9, 2024. The notice also corrects technical and typographical…

The Draft United States Core Data for Interoperability, Version 5 (Draft USCDI v5) is now available! Draft USCDI v5 includes new data elements that advance the Biden-Harris Administration’s goals of equity, diversity, and access to health care. 

ONC's HTI-1 final rule implements provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act and makes updates to the ONC Health IT Certification Program (Certification Program) with new and updated standards, implementation specifications, and certification criteria.

ONC and the HHS Office for Civil Rights have released version 3.4 of the popular HHS Security Risk Assessment (SRA) Tool. This tool is designed to aid small and medium sized healthcare organizations in their efforts to assess security risks. The latest version of the SRA Tool…

Today, we announced HTI-1, a newly proposed rule on display at the Federal Register. The proposed rule would implement certain provisions of the Cures Act and make several enhancements to the ONC Health IT Certification Program.

The Leading Edge Acceleration Projects (LEAP) in Health IT program issued a new Special Emphasis Notice for 2023 LEAP in Health IT projects. The SEN will support projects in the following areas of interest: Exploring the Use of Advanced Fast Health Care Interoperability Resources (FHIR®)…

The latest ONC Standards Bulletin is out! Published periodically, this Standards Bulletin describes the background of USCDI and the development of the newly published Draft USCDI v4. The USCDI sets the technical and policy foundation for the access, exchange, and use of…

The Draft United States Core Data for Interoperability, Version 4 (Draft USCDI v4) is now available! The USCDI is a standard, updated annually. It is developed and adopted by ONC on behalf of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to serve as a baseline set of data elements for…

ONC Standards Bulletin 2022-2 (SB22-2) discusses the development and finalization of the latest version of the United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI), Version 3 (USCDI v3), which was released on July 19, 2022.

ONC published a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) under the Leading Edge Acceleration Projects (LEAP) in Health Information Technology (Health IT) funding opportunity NAP-AX-22-001. The goal…

This request for information seeks input from the public regarding electronic prior authorization standards, implementation specifications, and certification criteria that could be adopted within the ONC Health IT Certification Program. Responses to this Request for Information will be used to…

The Standards Bulletin 2022-1 (SB22-1) discusses the Draft USCDI Version 3 and how the community can provide feedback. Draft USCDI v3 will be open for public feedback until April 30, 2022.