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The COVID-19 pandemic has “exposed a lot of inefficiencies” in the healthcare system—with one of the largest being data sharing and access, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma said Tuesday.
Data access is critical both for patients who are navigating care for COVID-19 as well as for the army of contact tracers trying to track the spread of the virus, the CMS chief said while speaking during Fortune’s Brainstorm Health event.
“That data is often trapped in electronic silos,” Verma said.
For example, Verma said, the patients who were in quarantine on cruise ships during the early days of the pandemic would have been in a better position if they had access to their electronic health...
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