“The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has launched a new pilot program to give healthcare providers easier access to claims data, helping fill in gaps in information – previous diagnoses, past procedures, medication lists – and enabling a more complete patient history.”
“WHY IT MATTERS
Launched Tuesday at the White House Blue Button Developers Conference, the goal of the project – called Data at the Point of Care – is to “enable providers to have the information they need to deliver high quality care to Medicare beneficiaries,” said CMS Administrator Seema Verma. “This new program will help fill in the areas of missing information that currently plague providers.”
The DPC initiative uses the Blue Button 2.0 API, which Verma said by now has enabled “nearly 40 million Medicare beneficiaries to connect their claims data with applications that help them manage their health…”
“This program is launching first in a pilot phase where we will work with providers and healthcare systems to pilot the API, test features and improve our program to provide the highest impact for providers and our beneficiaries,” said Verma.
“Starting tomorrow, providers can sign up to be a part of our initial pilot,” she said. “And in three months CMS will be rolling out production data. Starting in January 2020, all Medicare providers will be able to receive claims data for the patients they are treating…” Read the full article here.
Source: Seema Verma, Jared Kushner tout new physician-focused MyHealthEData project – By Mike Miliard, July 30, 2019. Healthcare IT News.
