August 1, 2025- Interoperability and information sharing is a long-term challenge for the healthcare sector, made harder by siloed data that doesn’t easily flow between providers and a reliance on dated technology, according to Healthcare Dive. Now, the Trump administration is launching its own data sharing initiative. It includes the CMS Interoperability Framework, which the agency said is a “call to action for health data networks that want to move faster.”
The framework’s criteria are supposed to be “visionary,” the CMS said. Some of the goals include ensuring patients can access their electronic medical data anywhere on the network, using apps of their choice, according to Healthcare Dive. Patients should also be able to access claims, explanation of benefits and prior authorizations from current and past payers, and data queries should be responded to quickly — possibly in real time, according to the CMS.
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