Politico August 4, 2025
Ruth Reader

WASHINGTON WATCH

On the same day last week that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services rolled out plans to ease the flow of health information, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT made two fairly significant announcements at an event in the Eisenhower building.

“The first was that we were going to continue our work on certification, and that this was going to include certification of APIs to improve interoperability,” Tom Keane told Ruth. “The other thing I talked about is how we were going to enforce the information blocking.”

Keane did not specify a timeline for when the agency would start certifying what are known as APIs, which are the means by which information is sent...

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