“Interoperability is a top priority for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the White House as well, according to Kate Goodrich, MD, chief medical officer and director of the CMS Center for Clinical Standards and Quality.”
“There’s “lots of ongoing work around interoperability,” including coordination with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and the Department of Veterans Affairs, said Goodrich during Wednesday’s HIT Advisory Committee Meeting…”
“Goodrich emphasized that the Trump administration’s framework for interoperability is based on ensuring patients have access to their health information in a secure, timely and valuable manner. “You will start to see more from us—as well as from ONC—over the coming months around this,” Goodrich concluded at the HITAC meeting…” Read the full article here.
Source: Interoperability at top of CMS, White House agenda – By Greg Slabodkin, April 19, 2018. Health Data Management.
