3.0.0 217 2023-01-11T13:46:40Z 2023-01-11T13:46:40Z Senate S 2021-02-03 117 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2021-02-04T00:38:37Z 2021-02-03 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2021-02-03 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 2021-02-03 True Health Administrative law and regulatory procedures Cardiovascular and respiratory health Congressional oversight Department of Health and Human Services Emergency medical services and trauma care Health facilities and institutions Health information and medical records Infectious and parasitic diseases Medical tests and diagnostic methods Postal service Health 00 2021-02-03 Introduced in Senate 2021-05-18T14:10:50Z Patient Matching Improvement Act of 2021

This bill requires the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) to standardize the format of postal addresses in health information technology to improve patient matching. Patient matching is the identification and linking of one patient's data within and across health care organizations using multiple demographic fields, such as name and address.

The ONC must collaborate with the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to make existing tools that automatically format addresses into a specific standard available to health care organizations. In particular, the ONC must focus on making the tools available to laboratories that test for COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) to improve data collection related to that disease. If the USPS determines the tools cannot be made available to health care organizations, the Department of Health and Human Services must report to Congress on the barriers that prevent such use.

In addition, the ONC must update regulations to require the use of a standard address format as a condition of certification for health information technology.

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