In collaboration with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Deputy Secretary’s office, the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ASTP/ONC) has released a request for information (RFI) focused on one big question: What would it look like if we put the whole of HHS toward accelerating the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in clinical care? This RFI builds on the recently published HHS AI Strategy and the administration’s overall AI policy framework. To complement the AI Strategy’s look at how we’ll use AI across HHS operations, this RFI seeks your best ideas on the actions HHS could take to accelerate the use of AI in clinical care.   

HHS is especially interested in comments from those building AI tools for clinical settings, those buying or implementing AI tools for clinical settings, and those who want to use AI in clinical care but face barriers. Your input will inform how HHS uses three major levers: regulation, reimbursement, and research and development. 

Comments will be due 60 days after publication in the Federal Register, so now’s the time to put your thinking caps on. 

Read the AI RFI

Today we have also released a handful of new information blocking FAQs, including one that addresses practices that interfere with automation technology’s ability to access, exchange, or use electronic health information. The other new information blocking FAQs can be found on our main FAQs page and are directly accessible through these links: 

• Related to revenue sharing 

• Related to the requester’s role in the Manner Exception 

• Related to electronic health information’s scope and the Manner Exception