Improving Diagnosis in Medicine Act of 2020
Latest action · Dec 10, 2020 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.
- IntroducedDec 10, 2020
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Improving Diagnosis in Medicine Act of 2020
This bill requires the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to provide grants for Research Centers of Diagnostic Excellence to support research in diagnostic quality, safety, and value and establishes the federal Interagency Council on Improving Diagnosis in Health Care within the Department of Health and Human Services.
Research centers must use funds to conduct diagnostic safety and quality research, including high-impact research on novel solutions to reduce patient harm, and to support initiatives to improve diagnosis in medicine. Other activities may include developing and training the diagnostic research workforce and developing and validating measures to assess diagnostic errors.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Dec 10, 2020Introduced in Senate
- Dec 10, 2020Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 5014 | Improving Diagnosis in Medicine Act of 2019 | Related bill | Nov 12, 2019 |
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Advisory bodies
- Congressional oversight
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Executive agency funding and structure
- Government information and archives
- Health
- Health care quality
- Health personnel
- Health programs administration and funding
- Health promotion and preventive care
- Medical education
- Medical research
- Medical tests and diagnostic methods
- Public-private cooperation
- Research administration and funding
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Dec 10, 2020Introduced in Senate
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