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The HHS Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy (ASTP) has taken a bold stance with its release of the HTI-5 Proposed Rule. The proposal takes major deregulatory steps while also taking precision-targeted action to ensure that information blocking requirements accomplish the bipartisan intent of the 21st Century Cures Act. Overall, HTI-5 recalibrates the federal government's approach to interoperability, information blocking enforcement, and health IT oversight.

The pressure driving healthcare AI adoption has two interconnected roots. The first is clinical: an aging population, rising chronic disease prevalence, and increasingly complex therapies are compounding demand on health systems at the same time that primary care and nursing shortages are limiting capacity. The second is financial: labor represents 50 to 70 percent of total operating cost for most health systems, and those costs are growing faster than revenue. These pressures are not independent—clinical complexity directly amplifies the labor cost crisis, and workforce shortages and reimbursement challenges make the financial pressure harder to absorb.

A large part of the administrative services layer that sits underneath healthcare today is operating on an economic model that has already begun to break, even if it doesn’t look that way yet from the outside.

Discover the 8 patient access metrics AI improves in 45 days—reduce wait times, cut abandonment, boost FCR, lower costs, and improve satisfaction.