21st Century Cures ActOncologyHealth PolicyBioethicsThe US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) expanded access pathway allows patients with life‐threatening or serious conditions to access investigational drugs outside of trials, under certain conditions. The 21st Century Cures Act ("Cures Act") ...
Ultimately, median time from report finalization to patient access via portal was 47.3 hours before implementation of Cures Act information-blocking provisions, versus 8.9 hours after implementation. A total of 18.5% of reports were first accessed by the patient before the ordering provider ...
Managing Partner, Implementation Consulting Email LinkedIn Subscribe The 21st Century Cures Act, proposed by Representatives Fred Upton (R-MI) and Diana DeGette (D-DO), was signed into law by President Barack Obama in December of 2016. Broadly, the bill focuses on medical research and Food an...
Healthcare organizations got a six-month extension in October, but the compliance date for the information blocking provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act will be here sooner than many think – and the requirements around API-centric data exchange architecture will follow soon after. The work...
Study objective: There is a continued movement toward health data transparency, accelerated by the 21st Century CURES Act, which mandated the automatic and immediate release of clinical notes, often termed "open notes." Differences in utilization among different patient demographics and disproportionately...