CMS Charts Medicare’s Tech Future

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. [...]