On this episode of The Beat, recorded live at ViVE 2024, Andrea joins hosts Dr. Jessica Shepherd and Dr. Gautam Gulati to explain how her team responds to tech emergencies and plans big strategic plays for CMS.
Did you know that there is a team of techies who serve the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services or CMS?
What is their role in this federal agency? How is CMS changing with emerging technologies?
And how might software engineers, project managers and other tech professionals help innovate from the inside to reform the complicated healthcare system in the US?
Andrea Fletcher is the first Chief Digital Strategy Officer and Executive Director of Digital Services at CMS, where she is responsible for leading digital modernization efforts and promoting interoperability and public access to health data.
On this episode of The Beat, Andrea joins hosts Dr. Jessica Shepherd and Dr. Gautam Gulati to explain how her team responds to tech emergencies and plans big strategic plays for CMS.
Andrea discusses the potential for the federal government to be a leader in AI adoption and shares her open-source software initiative to reuse tech stacks within and across federal departments and agencies.
Listen in for Andrea’s insight on leveraging data to rethink how we pay for and deliver care and learn how CMS is looking to evolve with ‘Jetson’s era’ technologies and improve the experience of healthcare for individual Americans.
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