Healthcare IT News August 13, 2018
Tom Sullivan

Speaking at the White House, she said the potential of what unleashed health data could do for the country is “really unimaginable.”

Administrator Seema Verma urged health insurance companies to follow the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ lead and make claims data more readily available.

“We’re at the beginning of the digital health revolution, we have the ability to take that data and unleash it,” Verma said Monday here during the White House Blue Button 2.0 Developer Conference. “We’re unleashing the most powerful force in our economy: the consumer.”

Verma added that CMS is creating a new type of patient profile by making the agency’s massive amounts of claims data available to the public via the Blue Button...

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