Healthcare IT News March 8, 2024
The Biden Cancer Moonshot says that Epic, Oracle Health, Meditech, athenahealth, Flatiron, Ontada, ThymeCare and CVS Health have adopted the CMS Enhancing Oncology Model to increase interoperability, advance equity and improve cancer diagnosis outcomes.
In a potential big advancement for oncology treatment and information sharing, several leading electronic health record vendors this week made voluntary commitment to adopt the United States Core Data for Interoperability Plus Cancer, or USCDI+ Cancer, a recommended minimum set of key cancer-related data elements to be included in a patient’s EHR.
They’ve also pledged to support the necessary data elements for a new cancer care payment model developed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
WHY IT MATTERS
The Cancer Moonshot Initiative,...