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  1. May 2025
    1. § 170.213 United States Core Data for Interoperability. The Secretary adopts the following versions of the United States Core Data for Interoperability standard: (a) Standard. United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI), July 2020 Errata, Version 1 (v1) (incorporated by reference, see § 170.299). The adoption of this standard expires on January 1, 2026. (b) Standard. United States Core Data for Interoperability Version 3 (USCDI v3) (incorporated by reference, see § 170.299). [89 FR 1428, Jan. 9, 2024]

      This page seems to indicate that many of the standards have a refernce back to USCDI both v1 and v3, with v1 expiring at the beginning of 2026.

      Does this mean that USCDI is not mandating NPI until 2026.

    1. Transforming Health Care: The President’s Health Information Technology Plan

      President GW Bush health information technology plan, which included the creation of the Office of the National Coordinator ONC. Released shortly after his state of the union a few months earlier.

    1. has published application programming inter-faces and allows health information from such tech-nology to be accessed, exchanged, and used withoutspecial effort through the use of application program-ming interfaces or successor technology or standards,as provided for under applicable law, including pro-viding access to all data elements of a patient’s elec-tronic health record to the extent permissible underapplicable privacy laws

      This is the section of the CURES act that specifically mandates API based interoperability.

    2. enables the secure exchange of electronic healthinformation with, and use of electronic health informationfrom, other health information technology without specialeffort on the part of the user

      This is the second clause in the CURES act that mandates general standards-based health information exchange using the "without special effort" clause