Championing Rural and Community Health in National Interoperability Initiative

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On Wednesday, July 30, TruBridge president and CEO Chris Fowler joined other national healthcare leaders at the White House event hosted in partnership with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Interoperability Pledge. This effort aligns with the TruBridge mission to empower rural and community healthcare providers and help keep care local. In addition, this pledge reinforces our commitment to technology that promotes data sharing, FHIR, and builds on a modern data infrastructure.

The administration announced that over 60 healthcare and information technology firms pledged to work collaboratively on a patient-centered health technology ecosystem. Additionally, 21 networks pledged to meet the administration’s newly unveiled Interoperability Framework.

Fowler, on behalf of TruBridge, signed on to the pledge for enhanced interoperability, renewing our focus which reiterates our 45-year track record of delivering solutions that enable providers to focus on what matters most: their patients.

TruBridge President and CEO, Chris Fowler pledges commitment to connect to networks and “Kill the Clipboard.”

The framework’s data sharing criteria include:

Patient Access & Empowerment: Patients can access their full health and insurance data, including clinical records, claims, and prior authorizations, through any app of their choice, without needing provider-specific logins, as long as they use a CMS-verified digital identity.
Provider Access & Delegation: Providers with verified credentials and authorization are granted access to patient data (unless restricted by law) for treatment purposes. The framework also supports delegated access through trusted vendors, allows payers to query for quality metrics, and permits claims-based data access for recent encounters.
Data Availability & Standards Compliance: Clinical documents and chart notes are returned in machine and human-readable formats with timely queries. By July 4, 2026, networks provide/facilitate data access using Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) application programming interfaces.
Network Connectivity & Transparency: Participants agree to be displayed as a CMS Aligned Network and update the CMS National Provider Directory.
Identity, Security, & Trust: All queries must include the purpose of request to ensure lawful disclosures, digital credentials for patients and providers using a CMS-approved service are accepted, and networks maintain verifiable audit logs.

Chris Fowler joins Dr. Mehmet Oz, CMS Administrator, at the White House event where there was a unified determination to empower patients to improve their outcomes and healthcare experiences through easy access to their data.

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