“Seemingly every agency is now singing from the same song sheet on the virtues of IT modernization, but the U.S. Digital Service was singing that tune before it was cool… In late March, USDS released its bi-annual report to update Congress on its activities, and it crowed about impact…”
“One of USDS’s signature projects involves the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), a unit of the Health and Human Services Department, which is changing the way Medicare pays doctors and clinicians, rewarding them for the quality, rather than quantity, of care they provide.”
“To do so, USDS has worked with CMS to launch a new cloud-based platform and has helped CMS roll out new online tools and application programming interfaces (APIs)…” Read the full article here.
Source: USDS Teams with CMS to Spur IT Modernization – By Phil Goldstein, June 4, 2018. FedTech.