National Health Information Technology Adoption Act
Latest action · Jul 21, 2004 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
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.
- IntroducedJul 21, 2004
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
National Health Information Technology Adoption Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish the Office of Health Information Technology to: (1) improve the quality and efficiency of health care delivery through the use of health information technology; (2) provide national leadership relating to such technology; (3) direct all health information technology activities within the Department of Health and Human Services and coordinate such efforts across the Federal Government; and (4) facilitate the interaction between the Government and the private sector relating to the development and use of such technology.
Requires the Director of the Office to provide for the adoption, dissemination, and updating of health information technology standards that promote the efficient exchange of data between varieties of provider health information technology systems.
Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services from purchasing any health care information technology system that is not in compliance with such standards.
Requires the Director to guarantee payment of the principal and interest on loans made to eligible entities and award competitive matching grants to: (1) implement local health information infrastructure to facilitate the development of interoperability across health care settings; or (2) facilitate the purchase and adoption of health information technology.
Requires the Secretary, the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish uniform health care quality measures and public reporting requirements across all federally supported health delivery programs. Sets forth time lines for the development of such measures.
Requires the Secretary to provide for the collection of demographic data across Federal programs.
Cosponsors 3
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jul 21, 2004 to Jul 22, 2004, with 2 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-AL | Jeff Sessions | Original | Jul 21, 2004 |
| R-TN | William H. Frist | Original | Jul 21, 2004 |
| R-KY | Jim Bunning | Jul 22, 2004 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jul 21, 2004Introduced in Senate
- Jul 21, 2004Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Administrative procedure
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Commerce
- Communication in medicine
- Computer security measures
- Computer software
- Computers
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Cost effectiveness
- Demography
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Economics and Public Finance
- Electronic data interchange
- Employee health benefits
- Executive reorganization
- Families
- Federal aid to child health services
- Federal aid to health facilities
- Federally-guaranteed loans
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government procurement
- Government publicity
- Health
- Health care industry
- Health facilities
- Health information systems
- Health insurance
- Health surveys
- Hospital rates
- Hospitals
- Information technology
- Insurance companies
- Labor and Employment
- Law
- Licenses
- Medicaid
- Medical fees
- Medical records
- Medical statistics
- Medically uninsured
- Medicare
- Military medicine
- Patients' rights
- Performance measurement
- Physicians
- Poor children
- Public-private partnerships
- Quality of care
- Right of privacy
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Social Welfare
- Standards
- Strategic planning
- Veterans' medical care
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.