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AMIA 2024 Virtual Hill Day Recap Webinar
April 23, 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. ET
Please join the AMIA Public Policy team to hear about the connections and progress made, along with experiences from AMIA's first-ever Virtual Hill Day. During the webinar, you will learn what this means for AMIA in the future and how AMIA can continue to build on this momentum. There will be time allotted for questions and answers.
Register for Virtual Hill Day webinar.
AMIA Submits Comments to DOJ's ANPRM
Provisions Regarding Access to Americans' Bulk Sensitive Personal Data and Government-Related Data by Countries of Concern
The National Security Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) released an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) reviewing what are the necessary measures to protect access of Americans' sensitive data from countries of concern.
The DOJ is tasked with figuring out “specific, carefully calibrated actions to minimize the risks associated with access to Americans' bulk sensitive personal data by countries of concern.” The DOJ is considering a program that would identify prohibited transactions and restricted transactions to mitigate the risk of access to sensitive data. This program would define six categories of bulk U.S. sensitive personal data for transactions, including personal health data, biometric identifiers, and human genomic data.
AMIA comments focused on the association's Public Policy Principles to address the issue in the ANPRM, including:
- Health IT Safety
- Data Sharing in Research
- Health IT Data Standards & Interoperability
- Population & Public Health
- Health Data Privacy
AMIA Makes Recommendations to ONC USCDI v5 Draft
AMIA provided recommendations to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) Draft United States Core Data for Interoperability Version 5 (USCDI v5) Draft. In total, AMIA submitted updates to eight data classes and 11 data elements.
Read the full recommendations by AMIA.
Regulatory
CMS Releases FY 2025 Hospital IPPS and LTCH PPS Proposed Rule
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the FY 2025 Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System (LTCH PPS) proposed rule. The proposed rule would revise the Medicare hospital IPPS for operating and capital-related costs of acute care hospitals. Additionally, the proposed rule would make changes relating to Medicare graduate medical education for teaching hospitals by adding an additional 200 residency positions. The Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program would have changes to measures in the proposed rule.
The proposed rule will be published in the Federal Register on May 2. Public comments are due by 5 p.m. ET on June 10. Learn more.
National Academy of Medicine Artificial Intelligence Code of Conduct Principles and Commitments Discussion Draft
The National Academies of Medicine (NAM) released their highly anticipated AI Code of Conduct (AICC) on April 8.
The AICC outlines how AI use in health care is reliable, safe, and optimized to its full potential and the paper's editors explore strategies to responsibly implement AI advancements to achieve profound benefits in health and health care throughout the United States. In January 2023, the NAM partnered with a group of leading health, bioethics, equity, tech, patient advocacy, and research organizations to develop an Artificial Intelligence Code of Conduct initiative to describe the national architecture required to give rise to and support equitable and responsible use of AI in health, medical care, and health research. Stewarded by the NAM Leadership Consortium, the initiative was launched as a direct response to the growing call for a harmonized set of AI guidelines that can facilitate interoperable governance standards for its development and application.
- Submit your discussion draft feedback by May 1.
- Read the discussion draft.
- View the accompanying press release.
ICYMI
ONC Federal Health IT Strategic Plan Released for Comment
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released their Federal Health IT Strategic Plan for 2024-2030 draft for public comment. The draft Plan includes four goals with objectives for each goal:
- Promote Health and Wellness – improving health experiences and outcomes for individuals, populations, and communities.
- Enhance the Delivery and Experience of Care – improving how patients and caregivers experience care, how health care providers and others across the health care continuum deliver care, and how health plans reimburse for care.
- Accelerate Research and Innovation – advancing opportunities for individuals, researchers, technology developers, and other health IT users to accelerate scientific discovery and innovation.
- Connect the Health System with Health Data – the policy and technology components needed to support various data needs of health IT users.
ONC's public comment period on the draft Plan ends on Tuesday, May 28 at 11:59:59 p.m. ET.
AMIA's First-ever Virtual Hill Day
On April 2 and April 3, AMIA came together to discuss ensuring responsible AI integration in healthcare and the reduction of documentation burden and access increase. Subject matter experts met with approximately 40 Congressional members from the AI Task Force, Senate HELP and Finance Committees, and House Ways and Means Committee.
AMIA's Washington Download is your source for health informatics policy news and information from around the Beltway, covering action from the Hill, the Administration, and important AMIA collaborators.