Former CMS Administrator Calls for Healthcare Data Interoperability After Kill the Clipboard Anniversary
Former CMS Administrator Seema Verma published commentary calling for improved healthcare data connectivity, marking one year since CMS launched its "Kill the Clipboard" initiative. The initiative aims to reduce administrative burden by enabling electronic data exchange across healthcare systems. Verma argues that while healthcare has been digitized, meaningful interoperability remains incomplete. For Medicaid programs, improved data exchange could streamline eligibility verification, care coordination across MCOs and providers, and integration of clinical and administrative data systems.
Enhanced interoperability directly affects Medicaid programs' ability to reduce administrative costs, improve care coordination for complex populations, and meet federal data exchange requirements under the CMS Interoperability and Patient Access final rule.
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