BREAKING NEWS: At HIMSS18, CMS’s Verma Announces MyHealthEData Initiative, to Give Patients Control of their Data
Healthcare Informatics March 6, 2018
On Tuesday morning, March 6, at the Sands Convention Center in Las Vegas, on the second full day of the annual HIMSS Conference, Seema Verma, Administrator of the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), announced the launch of a new initiative called “MyHealthEData,” aimed at revolutionizing the relationship of U.S. healthcare consumers to their patient data.
Verma spoke to about 1,000 people at 9 AM Pacific time in Las Vegas at the Sands; at about the same time, CMS’s website carried the announcement, which stated that, “Today, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma announced a new Trump Administration initiative – MyHealthEData – to empower patients by giving them control of their healthcare data,...