Senate Health Committee To Hold Health IT, Biosimilar Implementation Hearings

As Congress comes back into session, the Senate health committee will hold hearings this month on two hot-button issues: improving care through patient access to their records, and a progress report from FDA on biosimilar implementation. The announcement of the health IT hearing on Sept. 16 comes after a HHS Office of Civil Rights official said last week that it is working on new guidance on patients' right to access data under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. Witnesses...