HHS

This week's top stories include hospitals scrambling to comply with the requirement to submit data to HHS, and Google and Apple's contact tracing app leaving the door open for tracking user locations.

Also: HHS awards $20 million in telehealth access, infrastructure funds; Lumi launches online service.

CMS-regulated payers will begin supporting HL7 FHIR APIs next year, allowing third-party developers to include claims data and other patient health information in their apps.

On the sidelines of the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference this week, HHS top brass discussed plans for regulatory reform, an innovation accelerator and more.

The CURE ID online data repository's crowdsourcing approach could help the agency to identify novel uses for approved drugs.

Also: Apple makes another cardiology hire; Blink Health brings on legal counsel.

Innovaccer CEO Abinav Shashank highlights healthcare policy and payment changes that will have major impacts across the industry.

Internal data sharing, an exchange framework for HIEs, and support for open APIs are all HHS priorities.

Ongoing FDA submissions and other HHS services are safe, but new regulatory filings will have to be put on hold.

ONC Senior Innovation Strategist Stephen Konya discusses the Health and Human Services road show visiting American cities to give digital health upstarts and entrepreneurs better access to federal agencies. The next HHS Startup Day is slated for Nov. 8.