• Issues pertaining to the use, funding, regulation and development of Health Information Exchanges and Regional Health Improvement Collaboratives including promoting interoperability, expanding health data equity, and leveraging HIT to better health outcomes, including efforts surrounding FY24 appropriations, pending Cures 2.0 legislation, and legislation relating to the reauthorization of the Pandemic All Hazards Preparedness Act.

Duration: April 6, 2021 to present

General Issues: Health Issues, Medicare/Medicaid, Science/Technology, Telecommunications

Spending: about $360,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

It can be tricky to figure out how much an organization spent on a particular lobbying engagement. The law only requires lobbyists to report the amount they were paid for federal lobbying each quarter rounded to the nearest $10,000—and if it's less than $3,000 in a given quarter (or less than $13,000 for organizations with in-house lobbyists), they don't have to disclose it at all. Plus, some organizations include spending that doesn’t belong in the report—for instance, money spent lobbying state governments or other legal work.

Agencies lobbied since 2021: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), White House Office

Affiliated organizations: Strategic Health Information Exchange Collaborative (SHIEC)