Healthcare Informatics August 23, 2018
A bipartisan amendment to the U.S. Senate’s Department of Defense and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2019 includes a requirement for the Trump administration to provide Congress with an update, by September 30, on its progress establishing information blocking regulations that are required under the 21st Century Cures Act.
The proposal (SA 3732), authored by Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA), serves as another push, on the part of lawmakers and healthcare stakeholders, for Congress to publish the rule.
As previously reported by Healthcare Informatics, earlier this month, in a strongly worded letter to National Coordinator Donald Rucker, M.D., several healthcare and health IT industry groups expressed frustration with the Office...
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