The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is striving to use data to support its health equity efforts, agency officials said today at the AFCEA Bethesda Health IT Summit.
While CMS is still in the “very beginning” stages of developing a data model aimed at health equity, the agency plans to release its first model later this year, according to Arrah Tabe-Bedward, the deputy director of the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation…
“Our hope is that it will help us both evaluate what’s happening with our models and identify continued opportunities for increasing the scope of our model to reach more Medicare beneficiaries,” she explained.
“We think about how can we construct our systems or modernize them in a way that allows the agency to use the data to support programs and efforts like health equity,” added Lee Ann Crochunis, director of the applications management group in CMS’s Office of Information Technology (OIT)… Read the full article here.
