CMS Hosts Listening Session on Health Technology Innovations

WASHINGTON—Following the recent release of the Health Technology Ecosystem request for information (RFI), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) hosted an in-person listening session to discuss the RFI and ways to use the health technology innovations to enhance patient care and promote efficiencies in the health care system. The meeting brought together stakeholders from across the health care ecosystem—including patients and caregivers; technology companies, data providers and networks; health care providers and value-based care organizations; and payers—to share their insights and best practices on ways to leverage digital health technologies to reduce fraud, cut administrative burdens and deliver higher-quality care to millions of beneficiaries.

During the meeting, CMS announced its commitment to move forward on a number of initiatives designed to help build the foundational infrastructure. These initiatives include:

• Building a dynamic, interoperable national provider directory
• Bringing modern identity verification processes to Medicare.gov to streamline credentials across the health care system
• Expanding functionality of CMS’ Blue Button 2.0 patient access application programming interface (API)
• Transitioning CMS’s Data at the Point of Care pilot to general availability
• Enhancing CMS’ participation in trusted data exchange.

These efforts and the RFI reflect CMS’ broader modernization agenda to accelerate digital health innovation, strengthen data security, enhance program integrity and drive operational efficiencies across Medicare, Medicaid and federal marketplaces. CMS is encouraging all interested parties to submit their comments on the RFI by June 16, 2025.