The patient is at the center of the 21st Century Cures Act. The interoperability provisions grant patients more power over their care and access to key information. Interoperability, a popular term in the healthcare industry, is the ability to exchange electronic health information seamlessly and securely without significant effort from the user. It allows for […]
Posts Tagged ‘ONC’
Interoperability Options for Healthcare Payers: Meeting the CMS Final Rule (and Beyond)
The CMS Final Rule sparked some interesting conversations and problem-solving among the interoperability team at Perficient. It’s one of the first times payer or health insurers had to react to these types of rules. The way they treat the data and the location of all the data makes this a different ball game than what […]
Who’s Getting Obama’s $215 Million For Precision Medicine?
Soon after I published a post on the mention of precision medicine in President Barack Obama’s January 28, 2015 State of the Union address, The White House released additional information on their initiative. The President’s 2016 Budget is set to allocate $215 million to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Food and Drug Administration […]