LAS VEGAS (March 6, 2018) - HIMSS appreciates White House Office of American Innovation Director, Jared Kushner, and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma’s participation in the HIMSS18 Global Conference and Exhibition, and acknowledges their announcements this morning on the Trump Administration’s MyHealthEData Initiative.
Administrator Verma’s announcement of Bluebutton 2.0 and call to accelerate innovation to release data is a strong indication that CMS is moving in a direction that envisions the next state of our healthcare system, one with safe and efficient care delivery. Administrator Verma described a path for CMS that ensures patients are empowered to control their own data, so that the right information about the right patient is available to the right provider at the right time.
Reaffirming its commitment to value-based care delivery, HIMSS champions a health system that delivers safe, accessible, cost-effective, and efficacious care. The importance of secure electronic exchange of health data to value-based care cannot be underestimated. HIMSS continues its pledge to work with CMS to ensure that incentives and CMS policies facilitate greater levels interoperability to achieve the overarching goal. We need to leverage all available policy levers to incentivize more health system participants to share data.
We look forward to learning more about Administrator Verma’s announcement of a complete overhaul of the Meaningful Use program, changes to the Advancing Care Information performance category of the Quality Payment Program (QPP), and other Trump Administration announcements on the MyHealthEData Initiative.
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HIMSS is a global voice, advisor and thought leader of health transformation through health information and technology with a unique breadth and depth of expertise and capabilities to improve the quality, safety, and efficiency of health, healthcare and care outcomes. HIMSS designs and leverages key data assets, predictive models and tools to advise global leaders, stakeholders and influencers of best practices in health information and technology, so they have the right information at the point of decision. HIMSS drives innovative, forward thinking around best uses of information and technology in support of better connected care, improved population health and low cost of care. HIMSS is a not-for-profit, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, with additional offices in North America, Europe, United Kingdom and Asia.
Media contact:
Karen Groppe/HIMSS
1-312-965-7898 kgroppe@himss.org
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