CMS Creates New Position To Oversee Health Information Technology

CMS is creating a new position of Chief Health Informatics Officer to oversee the agency’s policies on information technology and data sharing, the agency said Thursday (July 19), and the official, while yet to be chosen or their specific responsibilities refined, likely will play a large role in CMS’ planned overhaul of the electronic health record incentive program formerly known as the meaningful use program. “As the largest healthcare payer in the country, CMS should have had a CHIO function...