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A Report on the WEDI and CMS Conferences: Two Events, Overlapping Themes 3/4/2026   I attended two conferences with similar themes: burden reduction and empowering patients through improved data exchange. The first was the WEDI Winter Forum: The Promise and Reality of Health IT in Improving the Patient Journey and the second was the Centers…

WEDI Responds to the ASTP/ONC HTI-5 Proposed Rule and AI RFI 3/2/26 As an advisor to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, WEDI provides comments and recommendations to the Department and relevant agencies on a regular basis when opportunities are presented. Two recent actions by the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy…

Partial Government Shutdown: Update as of Monday Morning 2/2/26 A partial federal government shutdown, including the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), began at 12:01 am on Saturday, January 31, 2026, due to the lack of passage of the remaining Fiscal Year 2026 appropriations bills. While this partial shutdown is expected to be short,…

End of Year Flurry of Regulatory Action Released by HHS Nancy Spector, MSC, WEDI Senior Director, Federal Affairs As people were rushing around with final shopping, baking, and parties, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and its agencies released proposed rules, requests for information, and new models. The following is a cheat sheet…

WEDI Surveys Industry Readiness for CMS-0057-F: What Is the Current State? Nancy Spector, MSC, WEDI Senior Director, Federal Affairs In February 2024 when the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Advancing Interoperability and Improving Prior Authorization Final Rule, 0057-F as we now know it, was published, the compliance deadline of January 1, 2027, seemed…

Increased FHIR Adoption Requires a New Testing Strategy, Sponsored by Drummond Group It wasn’t long ago that Health Level 7 (HL7©) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource (FHIR©) was seen as a neat utility for basic data sharing. A sleek new way to fetch a patient’s allergies or lab results from an EHR without wrangling complex legacy…

A Look Back at the Chicago Summer Forum and a Look Forward at Upcoming WEDI Education Nancy Spector, MSC, WEDI Senior Director, Federal Affairs It’s been a month since the WEDI Summer Forum where attendees gathered onsite in Chicago at the Loyola University campus and hundreds more joined us virtually. The buzz in the room…

Monday August 4, 2025 Welcome to Chicago, whether in person or virtually! Day 1 of WEDI’s annual Summer Forum starts tomorrow and the speakers, sponsors, and staff are still working fast and furiously to deliver the latest information to you. There has been no summer vacation for the CMS Promoting Interoperability and Prior Authorization (CMS-0057-F)…