Verma: COVID-19 Proving the Need for Greater Interoperability
07/08/2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has “exposed a lot of inefficiencies” in the healthcare system—with one of the largest being data sharing and access, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma said Tuesday, according to a FierceHealthcare report.
Data access is critical both for patients who are navigating care for COVID-19 as well as for the army of contact tracers trying to track the spread of the virus, the CMS chief said while speaking during Fortune’s Brainstorm Health event.