CMS April 26, 2018

Today, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma, outlined a new Data Driven Patient Care Strategy as part of the MyHealthEData initiative. This strategy strives to make CMS data more accessible and usable in a secure manner that honors the privacy of patients and ensures that CMS will support industry innovation in unleashing the power of data to drive system transformation – enhancing efficiency, improving quality and reducing cost.

There are three cornerstones to the strategy – putting patients first, increasing the amount of available data and taking an application programming interface (API) approach to exchanging data in a secure and digital manner.

Putting Patients First

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