The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act Regulations

Implications for Health Information Access and Exchange

By: Cartwright-Smith L, Rosenbaum S, and Sochacki C
Publisher: Aligning Forces for Quality
Published: 3/1/2010

This installment of LegalNotes provides an overview of the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act and implementing regulations and assesses their meaning for Aligning Forces for Quality communities and others working to improve the quality and equality of health care in their communities.

LegalNotes is a regular online Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) publication that provides readers with short, readable summaries of developments in the law that collectively shape the broader legal environment for efforts to improve quality, reduce health care disparities, and improve the transparency of price and quality information.

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