Hearings to examine transforming health care with data, focusing on improving patient outcomes through next-generation care.
5 mars 2026
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Hearings to examine transforming health care with data, focusing on improving patient outcomes through next-generation care.
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17:08 - 19:41
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The senate committee on health education, labor, and pensions will please come to order. Increasingly, patient care happens outside the exam room. Any of us can pull up our health records, make an appointment, refill a prescription on our phones, and that is a huge advantage to patients and doctors saying that as as as as a person who is a doctor and who has been a patient. And so digital access to our health records allows doctors and hospitals to share a patient's information so quickly, And it's at least convenient and, in some circumstances, lifesaving. Whether you're out of town and need to go to the emergency room, or maybe you want a second opinion, or to see a specialist, having easy digital access to health information makes the process work better.
In 2009, Congress established the Office of the National Coordinator, ONC, to transition the health care system to a fully digital system. Today, we'll hear from ONC on their work to standardize health information sharing and put patients in the driver's seat. We've made a lot of progress on this, but there is more to do. There continues to be the issue of information blocking, which I think our witness will speak to, where one party blocks another from sharing data even with the patient's consent. Now, frankly, on that, I'm looking forward to hear what you have to say because hospitals tell me that they are transferring back and forth.
And patients will tell me sometimes not the case. And doctors will tell me sometimes not the case. And so I don't know if it's something which is improving with the relative balance of, but I look forward to your kind of illuminating that. I'll note that the Biden administration did not respond to a single case of information blocking. So maybe that means there's absolutely none of it going on, or maybe it just wasn't enforced.
But again, I'm hearing different things. Now I practice medicine for over twenty five years. Ideally, you have all the information you can get to treat the patient well, and that's why I and others led efforts to outlaw information blocking in the twenty first century's Cure Act, and I thank the Trump administration for acting upon this. Doctor King, who's here today, is working with HHS secretary doc Robert Kennedy to investigate allegations of information blocking and taking appropriate action. We must also consider how congress can continue to modernize patient access to information.
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