NHLBI
Research and Policy Update
Number 21s2
Special Sept/Oct 2005
Supplement II
Reducing Regulatory Burdens Associated with Health
Care and Research
NOTICE
Please be advised that the Department of Health and Human Services
(DHHS) is inviting comments from health care providers and the
biomedical research community on reducing regulatory burdens associated
with health care and research. For details, please refer to the
attached PDF.
BACKGROUND
In
response to House Appropriations Committee Report 108-636, HHS
and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) established an interagency
committee to consider how major federal regulations governing
the health care industry could be reformed to reduce costs and
other burdens and to improve translation of biomedical research
into medical practice. These activities build upon the 2002 report
from the HHS Advisory Committee on Regulatory Reform that can
be found at the following URL:
http://regreform.hhs.gov/Finalreport.pdf
In
a notice
published in the Federal Register the DHHS invited written suggestions
for specific reforms to regulations, guidance documents, or paperwork
requirements that would improve the delivery of health care by
increasing efficiency, reducing unnecessary costs, removing uncertainty,
and increasing flexibility, while maintaining or improving patient
safety and quality of care and other patient protections.
All
comments are due on November 3, 2005 (instructions for delivery
are included in the pdf announcement).
In the upcoming
months the DHHS and the OMB will also conduct a series of public
meetings across the country to obtain additional input.
An
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