Health Services Research, Health Statistics, and Health Care Technology Act

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Health Services Research, Health Statistics, and Health Care Technology Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to extend authorizations of appropriations through fiscal year 1981 for health service research, evaluation, and demonstration activities, and health statistical activities. Requires the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, acting through the National Center for Health Statistics, to establish standardized means for the collection of health information and statistics under laws administered by the Secretary. Establishes the Cooperative Health Statistical System, for the purpose of producing comparable and uniform health information and statistics. Requires the Secretary, acting through the Center, to: (1) coordinate the activities of Federal agencies in the design and implementation of the System; and (2) make grants to State and local health agencies to assist them in meeting the cost of data collection carried out under the System. Requires the Secretary, acting through the Center, to establish guidelines for the collection, compilation, analysis, publication, and distribution of statistics and information necessary for determining the effects and conditions …