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21st Century Cures Act for Digital Health

What 21st Century Cures Act means for Digital Health organizations — and how we implement it at the architecture level.

What 21st Century Cures Act Means for Digital Health

21st Century Cures Act in Digital Health environments carries requirements that go beyond the framework's general provisions. The specific operations of Digital Health organizations — their data processing scale, their regulatory relationships, and their operational dependencies — create compliance obligations that engineering teams must address at the architecture level. Generic 21st Century Cures Act compliance that ignores the Digital Health context will produce a system that passes audit by a framework-generalist but fails review by an industry-specialist examiner.

Our teams deploy in Digital Health environments with 21st Century Cures Act compliance built into the architecture from the first design decision. The compliance controls are not a layer added to an existing system — they are implemented as first-class components that generate evidence continuously as the system operates. The result is a system that is compliant on deployment day, remains compliant as it evolves, and produces audit evidence without manual assembly.

Key Requirements for Digital Health
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21st Century Cures Act compliance documentation maintained as live system artifacts, not annual documentation projects

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Access controls that satisfy 21st Century Cures Act requirements for Digital Health data handling

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Audit logging that generates evidence meeting 21st Century Cures Act audit standards in Digital Health regulatory contexts

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Incident response procedures aligned to 21st Century Cures Act notification and reporting timelines

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Third-party vendor compliance documentation satisfying 21st Century Cures Act supply chain requirements

How The Algorithm Implements 21st Century Cures Act for Digital Health

We implement 21st Century Cures Act compliance for Digital Health clients by mapping the framework's requirements to the specific operational context of Digital Health organizations before writing application code. Controls are implemented through infrastructure-as-code, enforced automatically by ALICE at every commit, and documented through automated evidence generation pipelines. The result is a 21st Century Cures Act-compliant Digital Health system delivered on a fixed-price timeline.

Digital Health Compliance Landscape
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We build compliance architecture for Digital Health organizations — 21st Century Cures Act and the full Digital Health compliance landscape — from the first infrastructure decision. Fixed price. Production delivery. No discovery phase.

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