“About 1,400 developers are working on new applications to serve seniors and the medically vulnerable since the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services launched Blue Button 2.0 in early 2018.”
“The application programming interface lets Medicare’s 72 million beneficiaries grant app developers access to their medical records. And it’s part of a broader effort by CMS to improve patient and private sector access to health care data, CIO Rajiv Uppal said Wednesday at an ACT-IAC event.”
“We are obviously on a journey to improve health care, and technology and sharing of data underpin [everything]…” Read the full article here.
Source: CMS data sharing critical to flood of apps for Medicare beneficiaries – By Dave Nyczepir, April 10, 2019. FedScoop.
