Medicare’s Health Tech Ecosystem initiative previews new apps

Zac Jiwa, a federal Medicare official, delivered a eulogy of kinds at a Thursday Medicare occasion highlighting the successes of the Well being Tech Ecosystem initiative. 

The eulogy’s topic? The clipboard. 

For the previous eight months, tons of of well being tech firms have been working to fulfill objectives set out by the federal authorities to make affected person information extra transportable, create methods that import sufferers’ information into suppliers’ digital well being information methods, and rise up numerous affected person apps. The thought is that filling out a stack of paperwork at each physician’s go to, on that ubiquitous clipboard, can be a factor of the previous.