Name
Breakout Session 1: CMS: Improving Services to Citizens and Providers
Date & Time
Wednesday, January 30, 2019, 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Description
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is playing a critical role in strengthening the quality and efficiency of healthcare services. This session will look at how CMS and its components are leveraging IT to tackle major issues in the nation's healthcare system, with a special focus on driving more value through the better use of data.
 
Potential topics include: 
  • Reducing the paperwork burden for providers
  • Using data to improve patient outcomes
Panelists
  • Julie Boughn, Director, Data and Systems Group, CMS
  • Bobby Saxon, Chief Technology Officer, CCIIO
  • Brent Weaver, Director of Systems Implementation, CMS
Speakers
Julie Boughn, Director of the Data and Systems Group Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Bobby Saxon, Deputy CIO of Information Technology,, CMS
Brent Weaver, Director of the Data and Systems Group, CMCS