SCREENS Act

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Passed Both Chambers

Signed into Law

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

Technology would help doctors give personalized cancer screening advice.

This bill would create a national system for cancer screening recommendations. It would help doctors use health technology to give patients advice tailored to their age, sex, and risk factors. This aims to make sure more people get the right screenings at the right time, while protecting their privacy.

What Would Change

Today, there isn't a national, standardized system that automatically helps doctors use technology to give personalized cancer screening advice. This bill would create such a system, requiring health technology to include features that use national cancer screening guidelines to help doctors and patients track recommended screenings, all while protecting patient privacy. This would lead to more consistent and personalized screening recommendations across the country.

Key Provisions

Requires the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology to create a national system for cancer screening recommendations within one year of the bill becoming law.
Makes these recommendations publicly available in a format that health technology can easily use and updates them every year.
Requires, within five years, that certified health technology include features to apply these cancer screening recommendations to individual patients.
Ensures that these new technology features protect patient privacy and allow patients to access and change their health information.
Encourages health plans, including Medicaid and Medicare Advantage, to use technology that applies these cancer screening recommendations.

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SCREENS Act

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