Patient Access to Health Information

CMS: Providers Need Data Access for Value-Based Reimbursement

January 18, 2017 - Value-based reimbursement success rests on providing clinicians with convenient and increased access to meaningful data, the leaders of the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) and CMS stated in a recent official CMS blog post. “Data is the lifeblood of the value-based payment environment,” Vindell Washington, MD, the National...


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