Health Information Technology Promotion Act of 2008
Latest action · Apr 25, 2008 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
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.
- IntroducedApr 24, 2008
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Health Information Technology Promotion Act of 2008 - Amends titles XI (General Provisions, Peer Review, and Administrative Simplification) and XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to create safe harbors from civil and criminal penalties in current anti-kickback laws for providing certain health information technology and training services.
Preempts state law imposing civil or criminal penalties where the conditions of this Act have been met.
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to report to Congress on the impact of such safe harbors.
Directs the Secretary to encourage and facilitate the adoption of state reciprocity agreements for practitioner licensure in order to expedite the provision of telehealth services across state lines.
Requires the Secretary to report to Congress on: (1) including coverage for telehealth services as part of Medicare home health services; and (2) expanding the list of telehealth payment-eligible originating sites to include publicly funded mental health facilities.
Directs the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Office for the Advancement of Telehealth, to report to Congress on the use of store and forward technologies in the provision of telehealth services.
Amends the Public Health Service Act to deem that any health care provider participating in certain government health programs meets any requirement for the maintenance of data in paper form if the required data is maintained in an electronic form.
Directs the Secretary to: (1) report to Congress on state, regional, and community health information exchanges; and (2) establish a project to demonstrate the impact of health information technology on disease management under state Medicaid plans.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Committees 2
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Energy and Commerce Committee | Referred Apr 24, 2008 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Apr 25, 2008 | |
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred Apr 24, 2008 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Apr 25, 2008Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Apr 24, 2008Introduced in House
- Apr 24, 2008Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Printed hearings 1
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serial No. 110-116 | IN THE HANDS OF STRANGERS: ARE NURSING HOME SAFEGUARDS WORKING?587 pages | Energy and Commerce Committee | May 15, 2008 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To promote a better health information system.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Health Information Technology Promotion Act of 2008
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Case management
- Commerce
- Communication in medicine
- Conflict of interests
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Electronic data interchange
- Federal preemption
- Fines (Penalties)
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Health
- Health care industry
- Health information systems
- Home care services
- Information technology
- Interstate relations
- Labor and Employment
- Law
- Licenses
- Medicaid
- Medical ethics
- Medical personnel
- Medical records
- Medicare
- Mental care facilities
- Physicians
- Restrictive trade practices
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Social Welfare
- State laws
- Telemedicine
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Apr 24, 2008Introduced in House
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; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
