Federal Regulations for Comment

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Curious About How we Built This List?

The approach we use to build and maintain this listing is described below.

Standard Operating Procedure

Sites for Data Mining

• • • Unified Agenda: HHS/FTC/FCC--What is coming up
    • Regulatory Actions Under Review
    • Upcoming Regulatory Meetings
    • FederalRegister.gov: Keeping track of whether or not a regulation has come up, can subscribe to specific department and agencies
    • Regulations.gov: Commenting on what regulations have come up

 Primary Search Terms 

• • • Interoperability
    • Digital
    • EMR (Electronic Medical Records)
    • Software
    • Sensor
    • Technology
    • Data Security
    • EHR (Electronic Health Records)
    • Data rights
    • Data privacy
    • Telehealth
    • Telemedicine
    • Remote patient
    • Artificial Intelligence

Secondary Search Terms (all initial words plus)

• • • Patient Health
    • Medicine
    • Clinical research
    • Clinical care
    • Medical Information

Search Protocol

Regulations.gov Website 

1. Advanced search for each keyword term in primary search list with the following criteria
   1. “By Document Type”(check all of the following)
      1. Notice, 
      2. Proposed Rule, 
      3. Rule
      4. Supporting & Related Material
      5. Other
   2. “By Agency” (include the following)
      1. CDC, 
      2. DOD, 
      3. DHS, 
      4. VA, 
      5. FDA, 
      6. CMS, 
      7. NIH, 
      8. HHS, 
      9. CRC, 
      10. FTC, 
      11. FCC, 
      12. OSTP, 
      13. SAMHSA, 
      14. AHRQ, 
      15. HRSA
2. Within each regulation, manually search for a secondary search term
3. If you have searched recently, narrow down by posted date 
4. Add relevant information to the Airtable