Verma touts interoperability, corporate partnerships at Blue Button 2.0 conference

Healthcare DIVE August 14, 2018
David Lim

Dive Brief:

• CMS Administrator Seema Verma on Monday touted progress CMS has made toward having developers use Medicare claims data to facilitate cost-effective care. Speaking at the Blue Button 2.0 Developers Conference held at the White House, she noted that about 600 organizations are now partnering to develop tools aimed at helping patients manage their health.
• The CMS chief said the goal is to someday be able to aggregate genetic information, medical records, claims data and wearable data in one electronic health record people can share with doctors and researchers.
• Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Oracle, IBM and Salesforce announced an agreement Monday, pledging they “are jointly committed to removing barriers for the adoption of technologies for healthcare interoperability, particularly those...

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