Opportunities for CMS Actions in Support of Personal Health Records | Markle | Advancing America's Future
Opportunities for CMS Actions in Support of Personal Health Records | Markle | Advancing America's Future

Opportunities for CMS Actions in Support of Personal Health Records

Publication Date: August 31, 2005 | Back to Latest News

CMS is in a unique position to acquire and distribute some of the data— in a structured, beneficiary-controlled way— to enable innovative developers to provide valuable tools to American patients and families. This is a new and inadequately understood area, with implications for law, ethics, technology, finance and liability. CMS will need to address a number of challenges to identify its appropriate role in this new and unsettled environment. Beneficiaries — and the nation as a whole—will be best served if CMS works closely with both public agencies, private sector organizations, and the general public to develop models, policies, and standards that respond to these challenges.


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