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Senate Health Committee Announce Health IT Bipartisan Hearings

by HITC Staff 06/11/2015 Leave a Comment

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Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.)

Senate health committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-Wash.) announced the start of a series of bipartisan hearings on possible solutions to achieve the promise of health IT. The senators announced that Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) will chair, and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) will serve as ranking member, for the committee’s next hearing in the series, and Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) will chair a subsequent hearing. 

“Today’s hearing sets the table for an important series of hearings the committee will hold over the summer focused on how we can improve electronic health records for doctors and their patients,” said Alexander. “Our goal, through the hearings and our committee’s bipartisan working group, will be to identify the five or six steps we can take to improve electronic health records—technology that has great promise, but has, through bad policy and bad incentives, run badly off track.”

Alexander and Murray announced the committee’s next hearing in the series will be on June 16th and will focus on opportunities to improve physician experience with health IT. Alexander said he has asked Senator Cassidy to chair that hearing, adding, “Senator Cassidy’s background as physician makes him the perfect chair for this important hearing.” Murray has asked Senator Whitehouse to serve as ranking member, adding, “Senator Whitehouse has always been a strong leader and voice in the conversation about how to improve health and wellbeing for families, and I’m grateful he will be sharing his expertise as ranking member for this upcoming hearing.”

In April, Alexander and Murray announced a bipartisan, full committee staff working group to help identify ways that Congress and the administration can work together to improve health IT for doctors, hospitals, and their patients.

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