The 21st Century Cures Act has implications for long-term post-acute care (LTPAC) and aging services providers, and a recent LeadingAge webinar explains how. You may now watch the recording of “Virtual Update: The 21st Century Cures Act.”

The U.S. Food & Drug Administration says the Cures Act builds on its ongoing work to incorporate the perspectives of patients into the development of drugs, biological products, and devices in its decision-making process and enhances its ability to modernize clinical trial designs.

Watch the recording to learn how the recently released rules support the seamless and secure access, exchange, and use of electronic health information. 

Hear an overview of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Interoperability Rule, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) Information Blocking Rule, and other quality/reporting regulations and requirements, including the following:

• Applicability to specific LTPAC care settings/services.
• Potential changes to pre-existing regulations, like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA).
• Implications for organizations’ health IT and/or health IT vendors/partners.

Presenters

The webinar shares perspectives from these experts at CMS and ONC:

Kianna Banks, RN, MS: Nurse Consultant, CMS

Kianna Banks is a Technical Advisor in the Center for Clinical Standards and Quality’s Clinical Standards Group. Kianna supports the group in the development and revision of the health and safety standards for hospitals, critical access hospitals, long-term care facilities, and a host of other Medicare-participating providers.

Scott J. Cooper, MMSc, PA-C, Center for Clinical Standards & Quality, CMS

CAPT Scott Cooper is a physician assistant officer in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and has been assigned to the Clinical Standards Group in the Center for Clinical Standards & Quality at CMS since 2003. He is the Senior Technical Advisor responsible for the CMS health and safety regulations (known more commonly as the CMS Conditions of Participation, which affect over 6,100 hospitals and more than 40 million patients nationwide, including 13 million Medicare beneficiaries).

Johnalyn Lyles, Division Deputy Director, Regulatory & Policy Affairs, ONC – HHS

Johnalyn is the Deputy Director of the Regulatory and Policy Affairs Division within ONC. The Division leads ONC’s development of regulations, analyzes policy, and coordinates across the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the federal government on initiatives, policies, and regulations to support national efforts to advance health information technology, electronic health information exchange, patient access, and health care for all Americans.

Alexandra (Alex) Mugge, MPH, Director and Deputy Chief Health Informatics Officer, CMS

Alexandra Mugge is the Deputy Chief Health Informatics Officer and Director of the Health Informatics and Interoperability Group (HIIG) at CMS, where she and her team have led the Agency’s interoperability and health IT efforts under the Office of the Administrator since 2018.

Elisabeth Myers, Deputy Director, Office of Policy, ONC – HHS

At ONC, Elisabeth Myers’s role as deputy director of policy is focused on implementing the 21st Century Cures Act, which addresses a wide range of health IT provisions from interoperable standards development for APIs to information blocking to health IT for specialty settings and sites of service including pediatric care. Her portfolio includes ONC policy team efforts related to supporting health IT policy in HHS partner initiatives, including CMS, CDC, SAMHSA, and HRSA as well as state health IT infrastructure initiatives.

Watch the webinar today!

LeadingAge CAST also provided FAQs focusing on the interoperability rule.