“… CMS, with the U.S. Digital Service, launched a new pilot program Tuesday called “Data at the Point of Care.” Unveiled at the White House’s second annual Blue Button Developer Conference, insiders say DPC could transform health care delivery across the nation, granting clinicians unprecedented access to patients’ claims data to enhance the services they provide…”
“But any time a clinician or provider sees a patient, they submit bills to Medicare or insurance providers in an electronic format, which generally lists all the insights and treatments given during the visit. Through the DPC pilot program, doctors will gain the ability to tap into that claims information and download it directly into their workflow without logging into other applications. If it works as planned, providers can use the API to request information on those they are actually treating instead of asking patients to remember everything that happens to them. CMS can evaluate their request, see if they can use that information, and then send that data back through a bulk API to give them that information.”
“This first iteration of the DPC pilot uses synthetic data. Now that it is live, providers can request access to participate on dpc.cms.gov. CMS said it plans to deploy to the first few users in August and they’ll start testing with production data between September and October. From there, they’ll roll it out to other providers as the pilot continues to evolve.” Read the full article here.
Source: CMS, USDS Pilot Unlocks Patient Data to Boost Provider Care – By Brandi Vincent, July 30, 2019. Nextgov.
