Susan Morse

The next phase of meaningful use is to create an ecosystem of APIs and apps, end data blocking and give patients choices about what tools they use to access their medical information.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services effort to reduce regulatory burdens are being warmly received but the industry appears less excited about price transparency and patient access to EHR data stipulations.

Administrator Seema Verma said changes to the program eliminate 25 measures and ultimately save hospitals over 2 million hours of work.

The alliance is one of the first, if not the first, national blockchain alliances for healthcare, says Optum engineer.

The platform gives providers patient data to earn incentives from risk-based contracts.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT will keep its $60 million operating budget, which some experts see as a boon to interoperability, and HHS gets a $10 billion boost.

Company highlights advancements in genomics at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, awards partnerships that are leveraging cutting-edge tech.

But while she agreed claims data should be available to patients, the devil’s in the details.

The government-wide MyHealthEData initiative is led by the White House Office of American Innovation.

Health IT data from its Epic medical records system and risk scores from Optum went into the enterprise data warehouse.