HR 2406 · 110th Congress · Health
Healthcare Information Technology Enterprise Integration Act
Bill Progress
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Introduced2
Committee3
House Vote4
Senate5
EnactedLatest: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 277.(2007-11-15)
Plain Language Summary
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Requires the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to establish an initiative for advancing health care information enterprise integration within the United States. Allows the Director to assist health care representatives and organizations and federal agencies in the development of technical roadmaps that identify the remaining steps needed to ensure that standards will be in place. Requires the Director to develop or adopting existing technology-neutral information technology infrastructure guidelines and standards to enable federal agencies to effectively select and utilize health care information technologies in a manner that is: (1) sufficiently secure and provides adequate privacy to meet needs; and (2) interoperable, to the maximum extent possible. Requires the Undersecretary of Commerce for Technology to establish a Senior Interagency Council on Federal Healthcare Information Technology Infrastructure to coordinate: (1) the development and deployment of health care information technology solutions; (2) the associated technology transfer to and from the private sector; and (3) federal funding and participation in private, voluntary standards d…
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CBO Cost Estimate
Congressional Budget OfficeH.R. 2406, Healthcare Information Technology Enterprise Integration Act
Oct 26, 2007<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Science and Technology on October 24, 2007</p>
Full CBO report ↗H.R. 2406, Healthcare Information Technology Enterprise Integration Act
Oct 26, 2007Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Science and Technology on October 24, 2007
Full CBO report ↗Official non-partisan budget analysis by the Congressional Budget Office
Cosponsors (20)
19 Democrats1 Republican