The Trump administration on Wednesday mentioned it has secured commitments from greater than 60 well being and knowledge expertise firms to take part in a plan to make Medicare affected person information extra accessible.
Leaders from tech firms together with Google, Amazon and OpenAI, together with suppliers and well being programs together with Cleveland Clinic and UnitedHealth Group, will meet with well being officers on the White Home in a while Wednesday to “begin laying the foundation for a next-generation digital health ecosystem,” the Facilities for Medicare and Medicaid Companies mentioned in a press release.
The initiative builds on a Could effort by CMS to solicit options on methods to modernize the nation’s digital well being ecosystem, and the limitations to sharing affected person info throughout totally different platforms.
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The concept is for a affected person to add information within the well being app of their alternative, the place it may be simply managed and shared with their physician.
In accordance with CMS, the initiative will give attention to diabetes and weight problems administration, the usage of conversational AI assistants to assist sufferers, and digital instruments like QR codes to “kill the clipboard” and substitute paper consumption kinds at check-in.
Corporations will decide to a voluntary framework round interoperability, which is how totally different well being expertise programs join to 1 one other and share information. CMS mentioned the framework will enable medical info to be simply shared between sufferers and suppliers.
“We have the tools and information available now to empower patients to improve their outcomes and their healthcare experience,” CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz mentioned in a press release.
CMS mentioned it additionally plans so as to add an app library to Medicare.gov to assist sufferers with power illness administration and to extra simply navigate cost-effective suppliers and insurance policy.
The administration is looking for voluntary commitments from business, together with on safety and privateness protections, reasonably than interact in rulemaking. It’s a tactic HHS has touted with the meals business and insurers to safe wins as a part of its “Make America Healthy Again” agenda.
