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CMS ecosystem pledges to expand clinical‑trial matching to reach more patients
Summary
Krishna Mehta of the CMS HealthTech team announced a clinical‑trials matching pledge to boost enrollment via claims‑informed signals and clinicaltrials.gov API integration; organizers named participating vendors and health systems.
Krishna Mehta, who identified themself as part of the CMS HealthTech ecosystem team, said fewer than 5 percent of cancer patients enroll in clinical trials in part because qualified patients are not told they are eligible, and announced a pledge to improve matching.
The pledge will pursue two pathways: claims‑informed signals routed to treating providers through the VRDC and expansion of direct patient/provider discovery via clinicaltrials.gov API integration in apps and EHRs. A range of organizations — Arcadia, Athena, Epic, Meditech, and others — were named as early participants.
