The COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) challenged hospital bed capacity severely limiting access to critical medical services in patients’ time of need. In response, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) collaborated with outside experts to develop what
Lessons from CMS’ Acute Hospital Care at Home Initiative
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The Transplant Eco-System: The Role of Data in CMS Oversight of The Organ Procurement Organizations
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) are federal agencies within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that play important roles in protecting the health and safety of Americans as they engage with the U.S. healthcare system. The agencies share responsibility for overseeing the organ donation, procurement, and transplantation system. T his is accomplished through CMS’ oversight of the Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs) and transplant programs, along with HRSA’s oversight of the Organ Procurement and Read more about The Transplant Eco-System: The Role of Data in CMS Oversight of The Organ Procurement Organizations - Blog
The Path Forward: Improving Data to Advance Health Equity Solutions
A True Focus on Data to Advance Health Equity The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Office of Minority Health has released “The Path Forward: Improving Data to Advance Health Equity Solutions”, which for the first time, outlines a plan to tackle health equity data efforts across CMS programs to achieve health equity by underlining the importance of health equity data collection and chart the next steps for CMS to improve data collection efforts and, in turn, advance health equity. As we look back over the last few years and reorient our perspective to the future of health care in the Read more about The Path Forward: Improving Data to Advance Health Equity Solutions - Blog
Interoperability and the Connected Health Care System
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed many shortcomings in our health care system, especially the ability to quickly share and use reliable data to better understand the health needs of all people across the country. This need for more accessible data is why the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) remains committed to making health care data flow more freely and securely among payers, providers, and patients by laying the foundation to foster a more connected health care system. CMS is working toward this goal by increasing and advancing health care data exchange functionality to better Read more about Interoperability and the Connected Health Care System