TORONTO, CANADA – Sept 25, 2025 — Smile Digital Health, a provider of enterprise-grade, open-framework health data solutions, today announced its commitment to support the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Health Tech Ecosystem initiative as a foundational technology partner. Smile’s HL7® FHIR®-based data platform enables payers, providers, and health tech innovators to become successful CMS Aligned Networks, accelerating secure, patient-centric data exchange across the U.S. healthcare system.
This voluntary initiative calls on industry leaders to align with the CMS Interoperability Framework, a goal Smile Digital Health has long advanced through both technology and leadership. This commitment continues Smile's proven track record of enabling better global health through open standards and modern digital infrastructure.
"Smile Digital Health has been at the forefront of advocating for and building the technology to make interoperability a reality. The CMS Health Tech Ecosystem initiative is a powerful catalyst for the change we've long championed," said Duncan Weatherston, CEO of Smile Digital Health and co-chair of the HL7 FHIR at Scale Taskforce (F.A.S.T.). "This isn't just about technology; it's about fundamentally re-architecting healthcare around the patient. By leveraging open standards like FHIR, we can finally break down the data silos that hinder progress and empower both patients and providers with the information they need, when they need it."
Proven Platform Capabilities for the Ecosystem
Smile Digital Health's platform already supports the key goals of the CMS initiative, empowering partners to:
Smile Digital Health also supports CMS’s broader infrastructure priorities, including the Medicare.gov app library, national provider directory API, and identity modernization tools that advance secure digital health access.