Lexology September 10, 2025
In the past few months, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) has announced new and renewed initiatives to promote health information sharing and interoperability among health information technology (“health IT”) systems. These include: (1) a “crackdown on health data blocking” through enforcement of pre-existing federal information blocking regulations; (2) a new “Health Technology Ecosystem” initiative (the “Ecosystem”) from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”); and (3) updates to federal certification criteria for electronic health records software (“EHRs”) and other health IT to increase efficiency and transparency with respect to drug pricing and coverage of health care services at the point of care. Collectively, these efforts signal HHS’s focus on using both carrots and sticks to...
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