NURS 6051 POLICY/REGULATION FACT SHEET
NURS 6051 POLICY/REGULATION FACT SHEET
The selected policy for this paper is the 2st Century Cures Act. The 21st Century Cures Act was signed into use in December 13, 2016. The act provides measures that America should implement to ensure accelerated development of medical products. The act was also adopted with the aim of bringing new innovations as well as advances to meet the needs of diverse patient population efficiency. The act also strengthened the need for the use of health technologies and incorporation of the patients’ perspectives into development of new health-related products such as drugs, devices and biological products (Gabay, 2017).
The 21st Century Cures Act has a number of implications on system implementation. The act requires the need for interoperability in the systems used in health organizations. The interoperability aims at ensuring enhanced sharing of information between and among providers for the development of efficient solutions to meet the needs of the patients. The other implication is the need for the promotion of data integrity in health information exchange. The act requires health organizations to work in collaboration with trusted exchange networks in designing and implementing systems that will provide safe and efficient exchange of health data (Lye et al., 2018).
The 21st Century Cures Act has impacts on clinical care, patient-provider interactions and workflow. It strengthens the efficient sharing of health information for faster and efficient decision-making in practice. It also strengthens the need for provider responsibility and accountability in the use of health information. The policy also protects the rights of the patients as seen from the need for the use of efficient, trusted and safe systems for sharing and storing patient data. Lastly, it promotes patient-centeredness, as patients’ values, preferences and participation are prioritized in product development process (Avorn & Kesselheim, 2015; Hudson & Collins, 2017). The organizational policies and procedures that will are in place of my work to address the requirements of the 21st Century Cures Act include standards and practices of information access and sharing, consequences of violation of the policy provisions, adoption of safe and trusted systems of healthcare, and use of systems that enable easy and faster exchange of information among providers of care.
References
Avorn, J., & Kesselheim, A. S. (2015). The 21st Century Cures Act–Will It Take Us Back in Time? The New England Journal of Medicine, 372(26), 2473–2475.
