Registration is now open!
July 14 – 16, 2026
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is excited to announce the opening of registration for the 7th annual CMS & Health Level Seven International (HL7®) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) Connectathon, taking place July 14-16, 2026. This virtual collaborative experience will bring together health care interoperability leaders, implementers, and innovators for three days of hands-on testing, shared learning, and alignment on how emerging CMS policies and FHIR-based solutions are taking shape in real-world systems.
Join developers, programmers, technology experts and analysts to learn about and test emerging FHIR Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and supporting FHIR Implementation Guides.
Technology implementers: Shape the future of nationwide interoperability—hands on. If you have leveraged HL7 FHIR to build a server or application, we want you to bring your implementation to the event to test with us. Work directly with CMS and industry leaders to test and refine FHIR APIs aligned with interoperability priorities, while helping shape how these policies are implemented in production across the health care ecosystem.
Healthcare payers and providers: We encourage you to attend and share in the dialogue about how your implementations are going. Engage with live CMS use cases—such as electronic Prior Authorization, Patient Access APIs, and payer interoperability workflows—supporting CMS’s commitment to FHIR as the backbone of patient access, payer‑to‑payer exchange, and digital quality measurement.
Get ready for what’s required—not just what’s coming. Test against evolving requirements driven by CMS Interoperability Rules and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s (ONC’s) Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability (HTI) rules, helping your organization anticipate implementation challenges, reduce rework, and accelerate readiness for what’s next.
How to Participate:
Register at the link below through the Whova event platform and select a track from the CMS Connectathon Confluence Page.
Registration is open through June 30, 2026.
To learn more about the event and ways to participate, please contact: CMSInteroperability@cms.hhs.gov.
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