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Version 00 · Introduced in House · Jun 6, 2002
Patient Safety Improvement Act of 2002 - Amends title XI of the Social Security Act to add a new part D (Patient Safety Improvements) to provide for voluntary reporting to the Secretary of Health and Human Services of patient safety data.Prescribes confidentiality and peer review protections for such data.Directs the Secretary, in order to reduce medical errors and improve patient safety and health care quality, to establish one or more mechanisms to analyze aggregate non-identifiable patients safety data and system changes adopted by patient safety organizations and health care providers.Requires the Secretary to develop voluntary, national standards that promote interoperability of health care information technology systems across all health care settings.Directs the Secretary to appoint an advisory board, the Medical Information Technology Advisory Board, to report to Congress and the Secretary on: (1) the best current practices in medical information technology; (2) methods of implementing health care information technology interoperability standardization and records security; and (3) a recommendation for a common lexicon for computer technology.
People & committees
Rep. Johnson, Nancy L. [R-CT-6] · R–CT
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Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 468.
Committee on Energy and Commerce discharged.
Committee on Energy and Commerce discharged.
House Committee on Energy and Commerce Granted an extension for further consideration ending not later than Oct. 11, 2002.
House Committee on Energy and Commerce Granted an extension for further consideration ending not later than Oct. 4, 2002.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 107-714, Part I.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 107-714, Part I.
Ordered to be Reported (Amended).
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee.
Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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.
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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.
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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