In the wake of issuing a request for information asking stakeholders how the agency can better serve Medicare beneficiaries, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has begun charting its future use of technology by laying out some of the objectives of such an undertaking.

In a recent news release, CMS identified the following objectives:

  • Building a dynamic, interoperable national provider directory.
  • Bringing modern identity verification processes to Medicare.gov to streamline credentials across the healthcare system.
  • Expanding functionality of CMS’ Blue Button 2.0 patient access application programming interface (API).
  • Transitioning CMS’s Data at the Point of Care pilot to general availability.
  • Enhancing CMS’ participation in trusted data exchange.

The agency and the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology recently held a closed-door meeting with industry stakeholders to discuss how to pursue these objectives.

Learn more about this CMS initiative from CMS’s May request for information; a recent CMS news release on the subject; recent CMS posts on the X site; and the Fierce Healthcare article “CMS commits to tech initiatives to give Medicare patients, providers easier access to health data.”