Stop Waiting on Mandates: CMS Challenges Health IT to Act Now

About this episode

Amy Gleason discusses the urgent need for action in health IT and the new CMS Health Tech Ecosystem pledge.

Data sharing in healthcare is deeply broken. Waiting years for federal rules to take effect only hurts patients and frustrates IT teams. We need a faster approach. Healthcare IT Today sat down with Amy Gleason, Administrator at the US Digital Service and Strategic Advisor to CMS and HHS. She breaks down the new CMS Health Tech Ecosystem pledge and explains how the industry is voluntarily coming together to solve interoperability right now. You will hear the inside details on the push for a National Provider Directory, strict identity verification, and the plan to finally kill the medical clipboard. Are we ready to ditch the clipboard in healthcare? Drop your thoughts below. 🔔 Subscribe for more great interviews with Health IT leaders. Learn more about CMS at https://www.cms.gov/ Find more great health IT content at https://www.healthcareittoday.com/

People in this episode

Host: John Lynn

Guest: Amy Gleason

Topics covered

• data sharing
• health IT
• interoperability
• CMS Health Tech Ecosystem
• National Provider Directory
• identity verification
• medical clipboard

Keywords

• healthcare
• data sharing
• CMS
• interoperability
• health IT
• National Provider Directory
• identity verification
• medical clipboard

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: US Digital Service, CMS, HHS

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