Key Takeaway: The 68-page draft bill released by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee featured references to key CHIME issues including: patient matching, standards harmonization and reducing the administrative burdens caused by electronic health records (EHRs).
Why It Matters: Last week the HELP Committee released the long-awaited work product of their six Committee hearings on health IT and EHRs. The Committee hopes the legislation will spur interoperability, enable innovation and improve usability of health IT products for providers and patients.
Only resembling key themes of the interoperability-focused provision of the House-passed 21stCentury Cures Act, the Senate HELP Committee’s stand-alone health IT bill, which will accompany a number of biomedical innovation bills, focuses on seven key topics: For the full article click here
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