“The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation plan to conduct a challenge in the area of artificial intelligence.”
“Adam Boehler, CMS deputy administrator and director of CMMI, made the announcement during a panel session on Wednesday at the HIMSS19 conference in Orlando.”
“According to Boehler, the AI challenge will be introduced as an XPRIZE, the not-for-profit organization that designs and manages public competitions intended to encourage technological development that could benefit humanity…”
“Ultimately, CMS wants to achieve better and more predictive quality that results in physicians having more face-to-face time with their patients…” Read the full article here.
Source: CMS to hold AI, quality measures competition – By Greg Slabodkin, February 14, 2019. HealthData Management.
