Startup analytics company Amino is the first for-profit entity to gain access to the vast CMS database of Medicare claims. That means Amino will be able to augment its physician search tool with claims from the nation's largest payer.
New HHS CTO Susannah Fox is more strategist, entrepreneur and even cheerleader than someone managing hardware installation.
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
Plans are coming together for "Data Independence Day," when consumers demand electronic access to their health information, but organizers want to position it more as a movement than an event tied to the July 4 holiday.
Entrepreneurs and other private-sector innovators will soon, for the first time, have access to voluminous CMS data stores.
CVS Health has become the first private company to integrate the federal government's HealthFinder.gov service into its website via a public API.