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CMS has put several requirements to achieve greater transparency into the new Prior Authorization and Interoperability Rule. 

Jill DeGraff, B.well Connected Health’s senior vice president of regulatory, believes the ONC’s new HTI-1 rule is a step in the right direction that will improve data exchange for providers, health tech vendors and patients. She applauded the rule for preserving TEFCA as a voluntary framework and for establishing FHIR-based interoperability as the industry’s de facto standard.

Last week, the ONC announced that TEFCA had finally gone live. This followed years of the ONC heralding the project's potential to boost interoperability and increase patients’ access to their healthcare data. However, former ONC Chief Don Rucker believes that TEFCA is built on an archaic data exchange protocol that will prevent the initiative from being useful.

Five QHINs have completed the onboarding process, according to ONC, and will now drive higher levels of healthcare information interoperability across the United States.

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GenHealth AI, maker of what it calls a large medical model, and senior-focused startup K4Connnect also secured investment.

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Dr. Don Rucker, now chief strategy officer with 1upHealth, weighs in on where TEFCA is headed and his fundamental concerns about veering away from the way the rest of industry computes.

Dr. Don Rucker, now chief strategy officer with 1UpHealth, makes the case for a FHIR-based TEFCA to hasten the speed of interoperability. "Let's not reinvent," he said.

Ron DeSantis has helped bring the once-fringe medical freedom movement onto the national stage.