{
  "signal_id": "SIG-2026-026",
  "observed_date": "2026-07-23",
  "category": "Interoperability Standards",
  "title": "ASTP/ONC releases USCDI v7, creating a newer current data-standard context than the corpus's v6 record",
  "what_changed": "ASTP/ONC's Standards Bulletin records the July 23, 2026 release of United States Core Data for Interoperability Version 7 (USCDI v7).",
  "why_it_matters": "P4L's existing USCDI v6 record remains historically accurate, but any answer or readiness assessment framed as the latest USCDI context should now resolve to v7.",
  "affected_actors": [
    "ASTP/ONC",
    "EHR and health IT developers",
    "health systems",
    "payers",
    "digital-health applications",
    "AI developers"
  ],
  "decision_implication": "Update 'current standard' references, re-run interoperability-readiness mappings against v7, and preserve the v6 record as a prior-version/provenance record rather than overwriting it.",
  "status": "Released",
  "evidence_class": "E5 — official ASTP/ONC source",
  "impact": 4,
  "immediacy": 4,
  "relevance": 5,
  "novelty": 4,
  "adoption_leverage": 5,
  "priority_score": 88,
  "sources": [
    "https://healthit.gov/standards-and-technology/onc-standards-bulletin/"
  ],
  "public_slug": "/signal/2026-07-23-uscdi-v7/",
  "watch_conditions": [
    "SVAP treatment of v7",
    "certification adoption",
    "implementation guides",
    "vendor support",
    "future USCDI+ alignment"
  ],
  "last_verified": "2026-08-08",
  "version": "1.0"
}