CMS Administrator Seema Verma calls for an end to physician fax machines by 2020

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are working together to realize a shared vision for a health ecosystem that sees the free flow of information between patient, provider and payer, CMS Administrator Seema Verma said Monday during the ONC’s Interoperability Forum in Washington, D.C.

Verma set a goal for digital health information to replace the current use of fax machines in physician offices to send patient information.

To this end, CMS is seeking developers, and already...