By Genevieve Morris – The 21st Century Cures Act, signed into law in December 2016, calls on the ONC to work with federal partners, including the NIST, and the healthcare and health IT industries to provide interoperability for all.
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The Department of Health and Human Services released the draft Trusted Exchange Framework, a significant step towards achieving interoperability, as required by the 21st Century Cures Act of 2016.
By William Hyman – The 21st Century Cures Act addressed what kinds of medical software are medical devices (and therefore subject to regulation by the FDA), and what kinds are not medical devices (and therefore not regulated by the FDA, but subject to CPSC and FTC).
HHS Acting Secretary Eric D. Hargan named three members to the Health IT Advisory Committee. The committee, created by the 21st Century Cures Act, is charged with making recommendations to the ONC relating to the implementation of national and local health IT infrastructure.
Want to contribute to future heath IT policies and standards? You may now apply to become a member of the new Health Information Technology Advisory Committee (HITAC).
By Genevieve Morris – The 21st Century Cures Act, (Cures) a bipartisan, comprehensive law, supports the discovery, development, and delivery of new treatments to maintain America’s global status in biomedical innovation.
Q&A with Alan Portela, CEO of AirStrip. Interoperability and our progress towards it is a topic Mr. Portela speaks passionately about, and I had a chance to ask him what his thoughts were on the gains the industry is making post-HIMSS.
By OmniMD – 21st Century Cures Act: The law has been called the “most important bill of the year“. Here’s summarized some of the notable implications of the bill in four buckets:
By William Hyman – The current version of the 21st Century Cures Act, which has been around in various forms since 2014, passed the House on November 25th and passage in the Senate is expected.