Tag: senate
Senate opts for “Step by Step” approach for innovation legislation
Tuesday, Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee announced that he will pursue a “step by step” approach to crafting major biomedical innovation legislation. This is a marked departure from both the House-passed 21st Century Cures bill and the previously announced Senate plan.
Implications of the Cybersecurity Bill for the Health Care Industry
*This post is co-authored by Vince Sampson On Tuesday the Senate passed the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA). The House had passed a similar bill, the Protecting Cyber Networks Act, in April of this year. The Act comes in the wake of many large scale data breaches, such as that suffered […]
