Health Technology Ecosystem

CMS is Making This Future a Reality

For over 15 years, we’ve regulated healthcare technology, but regulation alone has not delivered the modern, connected experience Americans expect. We now have an opportunity to do something different.

The CMS Digital Health Ecosystem is a bold new vision built on collaboration, not just compliance. We are calling on the healthcare industry, data networks, Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems, health app developers, providers, and innovators, to voluntarily align around a shared framework for data and access that empowers people, improves care, and accelerates progress.

CMS will do its part: launching key public infrastructure like the National Provider Directory, enabling modern identity on Medicare.gov, and expanding data-sharing capabilities. But the broader transformation depends on the private sector stepping up to our challenge and delivering real results, live, before the end of the year. 

This is a movement, not a mandate. It is a call to action, not a regulation. Let’s show what’s possible when we work together, and finally bring healthcare into the modern era.

For clarity, nothing in this document is intended to contravene, supersede, or preempt federal or state healthcare or privacy laws, such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules (HIPAA Rules), and the Privacy Act of 1974.