“CMS administrator Seema Verma continues to promote the ambitious White House and CMS effort to give patients access to their health records, dubbed “MyHealtheData.” In a writeup in RealClearHealth, Verma says CMS’s recent proposed overhaul of the Medicare EHR Incentive Program and its recommendation this week that hospitals post their services charges online are “only the beginning,” and that the agency plans to “pull every lever in Medicare and Medicaid” to prioritize patients.”
“CMS is also consulting with an offshoot of the U.S. Digital Service, a White House tech troubleshooting team, on the effort. Shannon Sartin, executive director of HHS’s USDS branch, tells Morning eHealth that her team is advising CMS on ways to implement a provision within the 21st Century Cures Act governing APIs…” Read the full newsletter here.
Source: More on MyHealtheData – By Mohana Ravindranath, May 4, 2018. POLITICO Morning eHealth.
