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Is “CMS Innovation Center” an Oxymoron?
A press release earlier this week announced the new CMS Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation.
If you went to their Twitter feed today, here’s what you’d see:
This struck me as a great pictorial representation of the broader challenges the CMS Innovation Center faces:
- They’ve kinda sorta figured out there’s a conversation going on out there — they’ve joined Twitter
- They haven’t figured out that they need to listen: Following = 0
- They haven’t figured out they they need to talk: Tweets = 0
I remain hopeful, but the CMS Innovation Center has a long way to go. Dr. Berwick, opening up this closed organization is going to be the challenge of your lifetime.
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Pretty funny, Vince. They did only “stand the CMMI up” on Tuesday, however. I was disappointed to find that the only content on their new innovations website was a post by Dr. Berwick. Everything else about the three “demos” they also announced (MAPCP, medicaid medical homes, and something else I can’t recall) was back on the bad old site. Perhaps this is some sophisticated communications strategy, but I felt like a kid at Christmas who unwrapped the big heavy box under the tree only to find it was empty.
Thanks. Now I’m sitting at my desk laughing uncontrollably and my co-workers think I’m nuts.
I love irony.
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