3.0.0 4456 2023-01-11T13:45:19Z 2023-01-11T13:45:19Z Senate S 2020-08-05 116 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2020-08-05T23:15:38Z 2020-08-05 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2020-08-05 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress H001076 Sen. Hassan, Margaret Wood [D-NH] Maggie Hassan D NH N C001075 Sen. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA] Bill Cassidy R LA 2020-08-05 True Health Administrative law and regulatory procedures Cardiovascular and respiratory health Computers and information technology Department of Health and Human Services Emergency medical services and trauma care Health facilities and institutions Health information and medical records Health personnel Health technology, devices, supplies Infectious and parasitic diseases Medical tests and diagnostic methods Postal service Health 00 2020-08-05 Introduced in Senate 2020-12-21T23:02:18Z Patient Matching Improvement Act of 2020

This bill requires the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) to take certain actions to standardize, in the United States Postal Service (USPS) standard, the format of postal addresses.

Specifically, the ONC must, within 90 days, make available a USPS tool that automatically formats addresses into the correct standard to health care providers and laboratories that test for COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) at no cost. The USPS currently provides this tool to online retailers at no cost.

In addition, the ONC must update regulations to require, as a condition of certification, that health information technology use the USPS standard for postal addresses.

]]> Patient Matching Improvement Act of 2020 Display Title Patient Matching Improvement Act of 2020 Short Title(s) as Introduced Patient Matching Improvement Act of 2020 Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to permit health information technology systems to use the Postal Service tool to standardize formatting in electronic health records when entering patient information to improve match rates among patient records. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116s4456is/xml/BILLS-116s4456is.xml 2020-08-05 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.