60+ companies join the new CMS initiative for data interoperability and applications for patients

Wednesday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services launched a new tandem initiative with the White House and the HHS aimed at creating a health care ecosystem more focused on the patient.

As part of the effort, CMS has deployed an interoperability framework to facilitate the exchange of transparent data between health care providers, DSE systems and technological platforms. Already, 21 health care data networks have undertaken to meet the criteria of the framework and to become networks aligned CMS.

These participating entities promise to allow patients and providers to access structured and unstructured health data using secure digital identities.

“We now have the tools and information available to allow patients to improve their results and their health experience,” said CMS administrator Mehmet Oz, in a press release. “For too long, patients in this country have been overwhelmed by a health system that has not followed the pace of disturbing innovations that have transformed almost all the other sector in our economy. With the commitments made by these entrepreneurial companies today, we are ready to change paradigm in the American health system for the benefit of patients and suppliers. ”

Eleven health systems, including Cleveland Clinic and Providence, also signed the commitment of the White House, promising to make health data for patients more accessible, support secure identity verification and allow third -party applications to recover clinical information in standardized formats.

There were also seven DSE suppliers who are committed to facilitating better data exchange and better access to patients for patients.

In addition, 30 companies undertake to create consumer -oriented health care applications.

Eighteen of these companies, including Openai, Hippocratic IA, Zocdoc and Anthropic, have promised to develop assistants from the conversational AI-and 12 companies, including Apple and B.Well connected, promised to “kill the paperweight” by replacing paper recording with digital methods and eliminating the need for patients to remember and write their antecedents medical.

Finally, eight companies – including Noom and Oura – will create applications to help treat diabetes and obesity. Some of the companies participating in the commitment have signed to create applications in more than one of these categories.

CMS is looking for deliverables from these 30 companies by next quarter of next year.

The participating entities seem delighted to start this work. The CEO of B.Well, Kristen Valdes, said that the new CMS manager validated what the company “believed for more than a decade”, in a statement.

“Real interoperability cannot be obtained through regulatory compliance alone. It requires open standards, empowerment of consumers and modernized architecture,” she said.

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