HHS Makes Announcement on KidneyX and HIT Improvements in Nephrology

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) along with the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) announced the 2026 KidneyX EMPOWER Prize Challenge, a $4 million competition to accelerate innovation supporting living organ donation through digital health and other tools. In addition, ONC also announced it would work with the nephrology community on data standardization and health information technology (HIT) improvements across the kidney care ecosystem to support these efforts.