CMS Officials Tout Agency’s Health Data-Sharing Efforts
In an opinion piece published on the Health Affairs Blog, CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner and Niall Brennan -- director of CMS' Office of Information Products and Data Analytics -- outline the ways that the agency is sharing data to improve the delivery of health care services. According to Tavenner and Brennan, such initiatives include developing a "broader strategy for providing more data to providers for performance measurement and quality improvement" and making data more accessible to traditional and non-traditional researchers "to conduct research to improve the health care system."
- "CMS Progress Towards Greater Data Transparency" (Tavenner/Brennan, Health Affairs Blog, 7/31).