Health Information for Quality Improvement Act
Latest action · Dec 9, 2003 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedDec 9, 2003
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Health Information for Quality Improvement Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish: (1) an Office of National Healthcare Information Infrastructure to develop a strategic plan to create such an infrastructure; and (2) a Medical Systems Safety Initiative to conduct research on improving and advancing medical care. Requires efforts to increase information technology usage and efficiency in health care to improve the quality of patient care and safety, while protecting privacy and security of information.
Prohibits health insurers from denying and preventing individuals with serious illnesses participation in approved clinical trials. Supports research on: (1) how best to care for older patients with multiple chronic conditions; and (2) the effectiveness and safety of prescription drugs with a high level of use in federally funded health programs.
Requires the development and use of standardized indicators of health care quality. Supports data collection and analysis to assess health care quality in communities and among people of different backgrounds.
Requires a study on approaches to developing and disseminating practice guidelines that synthesize the scientific evidence to support clinical practice.
Requires an evaluation of options to align health care performance with payment, including Medicare payments.
Supports projects to assess the feasibility of using different organizations to disseminate information about health care quality to consumers.
Awards grants for research on patient experiences. Requires the development of standardized materials to assist non-English speaking or functionally illiterate patients in the safe and appropriate use of prescription drugs.
Cosponsors 1
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Sep 27, 2004.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-NJ | Frank R. Lautenberg | Sep 27, 2004 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Dec 9, 2003Introduced in Senate
- Dec 9, 2003Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
- Dec 9, 2003Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S16138-16140)
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Access to health care
- Biomedical engineering
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Clinical trials
- Communication in medicine
- Computer software
- Confidential communications
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Cost effectiveness
- Data banks
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Economics and Public Finance
- Electronic data interchange
- Executive reorganization
- Federal aid to health facilities
- Federal aid to research
- Federal employees
- Government Operations and Politics
- Health
- Health information systems
- Health planning
- Hospital care
- Hospitals
- Human engineering
- Identification devices
- Information technology
- Licenses
- Life sciences
- Medical economics
- Medical fees
- Medical malpractice
- Medical records
- Medical research
- Medical technology
- Medicare
- Physicians
- Quality of care
- Right of privacy
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Social Welfare
- Standards
- Strategic planning
- Technology assessment
- Telemedicine
- Transfer of employees
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov.