Monday Morning Rounds with CMS
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CommonWellTV 2021: Join the #InteropDoneRight Crew!
On March 4, 2013, CommonWell Health Alliance launched with five founding members and a shared vision to break down barriers to health data exchange. Fast forward more than eight years later: CommonWell has more than 80 members and a nationwide network that has retrieved more than 1.5 billion records across 24,000 provider sites.
CMS Innovation Center Strategic Refresh Emphasizes Value-based Payment Models and Health Equity
By John Fryer & Rick Goddard – Recently, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation introduced their strategic refresh “Putting All Patients at the Center of Care” to support broader, more equitable, and outcome-based healthcare delivery transformation while streamlining current and future payment models.
Enhancing Person-Centered Care Through Inclusive Standards Development
By Steven Posnack – In a field like health care where precision can mean saving a life, one irony I often reflect on is how unclear we’ve been about “sex” and “gender.” Among many anecdotes, this includes at times putting the prefix “administrative” in front of each to inexplicably constrain the meaning in ways that are rarely universally understood.
What’s Happening at the ONC – 11-08-21
Supporting the adoption of health IT and the promotion of nationwide health information exchange to improve health care, here is what is happening at the ONC, including the next webinar in the clinician-focused webinar series on information sharing and the information blocking regulation, their renewed collaboration with the Gravity Project under the FHIR Accelerator Program & more.
Real World Testing – Certified Health Record Technology
By Jim Tate – The 21st Century Cures Act established Conditions and Maintenance of Certification for the ONC Health IT Certification Program. The regulation outlines seven conditions of Certification that cover issues ranging from information blocking to interoperability.
Aligning with Standards Development Community: The New Cycle for Standards Version Advancement Process
By Avinash Shanbhag & Jeff Smith – As part of ONC’s ongoing charge to coordinate across federal and industry stakeholders, we determined it was necessary to adjust our Standards Version Advancement Process timeline. Although it may seem like this process has been around for a while, it’s still brand new…
Monday Morning Rounds with CMS
In case you missed it, this is recent communication from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Subscribe to their email lists to keep up to date on all press and news releases.
Now Available: White Paper about CMS Innovation Center Strategy
The CMS Innovation Center is pleased to release a white paper detailing the vision for the Center over the next 10 years titled, “Driving Health System Transformation – A Strategy for the CMS Innovation Center’s Second Decade.”