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S 3530 114th Congress Senate Health

Ensuring Patient Access to Healthcare Records Act of 2016

Introduced: December 8, 2016 Introduced by: Cassidy, Bill Republican · Louisiana See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Dec 8, 2016
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Ensuring Patient Access to Healthcare Records Act of 2016

This bill amends the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act to require the Department of Health and Human Services to develop and update policies that enable certain health care clearinghouses, plans, and providers to: (1) provide patients with access to information related to their care; and (2) develop patient-engagement tools, reports, analyses, and presentations that may demonstrate benefit to the taxpayer.

What's happening now December 8, 2016

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 3530: Ensuring Patient Access to Healthcare Records Act of 2016. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-3530/
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"S. 3530: Ensuring Patient Access to Healthcare Records Act of 2016." 114th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-3530/.
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S. 3530, 114th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-3530/.
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