The Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) has released its 2026 Unified Agenda, which identifies regulatory actions that federal agencies expect to propose or finalize during the remainder of the year. Below, we highlight several notable health privacy, interoperability, and data exchange rules that the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) has listed for proposed or final action in 2026. The descriptions and target dates below reflect only the agency’s stated intentions and are subject to change.
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HHS Extends Comment Period for Proposed Rules on Patient Access and Interoperability
On April 19, 2019, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a 30-day extension, until June 3, 2019, to the comment period for two rules proposed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC).