Healthcare IT Today June 2, 2021
The following is a guest article by Stephanie Jamison, Director of Regulatory Affairs, Greenway Health.
Since its passage in late 2016, the bipartisan 21st Century Cures Act has been setting the stage to reform the healthcare sector. Its broad, overarching goals include increasing patient choice and access to healthcare, streamlining development and delivery of innovative drugs and medical devices, accelerating research into serious illnesses, addressing the opioid crisis, improving mental health services, and more. As we move toward the value-based care model, the Cures Act also seeks to improve access to — and the quality of — information that Americans need to make informed healthcare decisions.
To that end, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)...