What Black Book’s Payer Interoperability KPIs Tell Health Plans About Making Clinical Data Work in Production
Black Book’s 2026 payer interoperability research evaluates vendors across 18 key performance indicators. In this series, I’m looking at those KPIs in five practical areas through the lens of what it actually takes to build, operate, and scale payer interoperability infrastructure. Onyx ranked #1 overall in the research, leading 11 of the 18 KPIs. In Part 1, I looked at regulatory readiness, […]
CMS Is Pushing the Interoperability Envelope
By Mark Scrimshire, Chief Interoperability Officer, Onyx CMS hosted a special Health Tech Ecosystem Connectathon last week in Washington, DC — a one-day event that brought together nearly 300 participants from across payers, providers, vendors, federal agencies, and standards groups. The size and composition of the crowd made one thing clear: CMS isn’t just regulating interoperability. They are accelerating the ecosystem needed to make it […]
Who is Impacted by the Prior Authorization Rule?

Learn who is impacted by the CMS Prior Authorization Rule (CMS-0057)
What is the CMS-0057 Rule?

CMS Recently released the Prior Authorization Rule (CMS-0057). What is it about?
HLTH is just around the corner

HLTH 2023 is upon us (October 8-11). Let’s meet! There is so much to talk about with the acceleration of the adoption of FHIR for Interoperability.
Prior Authorization: A Business Problem In Need Of Regulation

Prior Authorization: A Business Problem In Need Of Regulation. Regulations must address how providers can discover whether a prior authorization is required and, if required, what information needs to be sent with the request