Cures Law

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12/11/2020 Next Cures Medical Research Bill Builds on Biden's Past Support US House of Representatives Next Cures Medical Research Bill Builds on Biden’s Past Support Dec 11, 2020 In The News Reps. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) and Fred Upton (R-Mich.) said a draft version of Cures 2.0, the followup to the 21st Century Cures law, will come out early next year, with the aim of passing it next year. Biden, whose cancer moonshot initiative was part of the 2016 law (Pub. L. 114-255 ...
11/22/2019 No safety switch: How lax oversight of electronic health records puts patients at risk FierceHealthcare ... a lot earlier,” he said. Rucker argues that the 21st Century Cures Act prohibits the industry from enforcing “gag” clauses that in the past have handcuffed hospitals and doctors from criticizing their EHRs. The Cures law includes fines of up to $1 million for “information blocking,” including taking steps to discourage EHR users from reporting adverse events and other problems for review. New freedom to sound off assures that doctors ...
11/21/2019 No Safety Switch: How Lax Oversight Of Electronic Health Records Puts Patients At Risk Kaiser Health News ... earlier,” he said. /p p Rucker argues that the 21st Century Cures Act prohibits the industry from enforcing “gag” clauses that in the past have handcuffed hospitals and doctors from criticizing their EHRs. The Cures law includes fines of up to $1 million for “information blocking,” including taking steps to discourage EHR users from reporting adverse events and other problems for review. /p p New freedom to sound off assures ...
6/13/2019 Providers Oppose ONC’s Healthcare Price Transparency Strategy RevCycle Intelligence ... substantiated by the underlying legal authority,” wrote Matthew Eyles, AHIP president and CEO. “HIPAA addresses availability of retrospectively provided service information to consumers and does not require prospective estimates be offered. The 21st Century Cures law provisions on interoperability focus on sharing information included in the clinical record. We do not believe ONC has the authority to mandate prospective pricing estimates as part of EHI.” The payer group also urged ...
12/16/2017 Why the information blocking rule might be taking so long Politico ... fill out new paperwork every time they change providers. Story Continued Below This spring, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is slated to release a crucial clarification to the 21st Century Cures Law , which bans information blocking by providers, vendors, information exchanges and others. Per the law, it’s ONC’s responsibility to define activities that don’t constitute information blocking, so HHS’s watchdogs know when to penalize providers. But ...
11/1/2017 Analysis of HELP’S health IT hearing Politico ... Bill Cassidy , one of the more active committee members on health IT issues, when asking what HHS was doing to stop information blocking if, indeed, it was happening today. Background: Under the December 2016 Cures law, the HHS inspector general was given the power to punish perpetrators of information blocking by levying a fine of up to a $1 million for each violation. The law instructs ONC to define the ...