June 16, 2025 is the deadline to share input on designing a seamless, secure, and patient-centered digital health infrastructure that will help seniors and their families use modern technology to control of their health and well-being, manage chronic conditions, and access care more efficiently in response to the request for information (“RFI”) of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (“ONC”).
Following up on the CMS Interoperability and Patient Access Final Ruleand part of Secretary Kennedy’s effotts to “Make America Healthy Again,” the RFI invites input from patients, caregivers, providers, payers, technology developers, and other stakeholders on how CMS and ONC can:
- Drive the development and adoption of digital health management and care navigation applications;
- Strengthen interoperability and secure access to health data through open, standards-based technologies;
- Identify barriers preventing the seamless exchange of health information across systems; and
- Reduce administrative burden while accelerating progress toward value-based, patient-centered care.
Sharing input can promote awareness of helpful design ideas and help deter investments or mandates of counterproductive technologies.
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