Sec. 3. Findings. 
TITLE I—FEDERAL INTERNET SITE FOR CONSOLIDATION AND 
TRANSLATION OF INFORMATION ON DISEASES AND OTHER 
CONDITIONS 
Sec. 101. Internet site. 
TITLE II—ADDITIONAL FORUMS FOR EXCHANGE OF HEALTH 
INFORMATION 
Sec. 201. Forum regarding off-label uses of new drugs and devices. 
Sec. 202. John Eisenberg forum regarding surgical procedures. 
Sec. 203. John Eisenberg forum regarding complementary and alternative med-
icine; dietary supplements and food. 
TITLE III—GENERAL PROVISIONS 
Sec. 301. Definitions. 
Sec. 302. Effective dates. 
SEC. 3. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds as follows: 
(1) The Congress and the American people de-
sire to live healthy lives and foster an effective and 
efficient health care system. This system requires 
timely, accurate, and ever-improving information re-
sources. This will foster maximization of health care 
outcomes and help health care practitioners and pa-
tients partner for more effective results. 
(2) The Internet is a unique tool offering access 
to great volumes of information. Some is accurate 
and some is not. There has also been extensive gov-
ernment investment in placing medical information 
on the Internet in many diverse places. 
(3) There is a need to consolidate and translate 
this myriad of information for physicians and con-
sumers, from the listing of clinical trials to the pro-
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tocols for treatment of various diseases and condi-
tions, as well as the integration of new discoveries 
and the evaluations of outcomes-based examinations 
of drugs and devices for conditions other than those 
for which they are already approved. This will lead 
to more accurate treatment, fewer medical errors, 
and more successful outcomes, while also protecting 
patients, a physician’s right to practice medicine, 
and a patient’s right to access the health care the 
patient desires. 
(4) The Food and Drug Administration is 
uniquely qualified to assist the Nation in fulfilling 
this mission to improve health care for the benefit 
of Americans. The Administration already coordi-
nates the information needs of many government 
agencies and equivalent regulatory bodies in other 
countries. 
(5) In providing Internet-based forums for ob-
taining and disseminating health-related information 
(including information on surgical procedures; com-
plimentary and alternative medicine; dietary supple-
ments and food; and unapproved treatments), the 
Food and Drug Administration should work closely 
with educational institutions, schools of medicine, 
and other appropriate private entities and ensure 
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that the expertise of such entities is appropriately 
utilized. 
TITLE 
I—FEDERAL 
INTERNET 
SITE 
FOR 
CONSOLIDATION 
AND TRANSLATION OF INFOR-
MATION ON DISEASES AND 
OTHER CONDITIONS 
SEC. 101. INTERNET SITE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Health and 
Human Services, acting through the Commissioner of 
Food and Drugs, shall carry out a program whose mission 
is, through an Internet site maintained for purposes of 
the program— 
(1) to consolidate and translate health care in-
formation that is available to the public from Fed-
eral agencies, linking the various health-related 
Internet sites of such agencies; and 
(2) to assist in the translation and reporting of 
disease or condition protocols for physicians and lay 
persons. 
(b) INFORMATION ON DISEASES AND OTHER CONDI-
TIONS.—The Secretary shall ensure that the Internet site 
under subsection (a) has capacities that enable a user of 
the site to enter the name of a disease or other health 
condition and obtain Internet links appropriate to health 
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care providers, and links appropriate to lay persons, that 
provide— 
(1) an explanation of the health condition; and 
(2) information on all available treatment pro-
tocols, including— 
(A) standard medical practice protocols; 
and 
(B) any clinical trials, and any outcomes- 
based treatment protocols, that— 
(i) are being conducted or supported 
by the National Institutes of Health; 
(ii) are included in the registry and 
results data bank under section 402(j) of 
the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
282(j)); 
(iii) are being conducted pursuant to 
the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act 
or section 351 of the Public Health Service 
Act; 
(iv) are being conducted pursuant to 
section 201 of this Act; or 
(v) are identified pursuant to section 
201 or 202 of this Act or pursuant to sec-
tion 485D(i) of the Public Health Service 
Act (as added by section 203 of this Act). 
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(c) FEDERAL DATABASES.—Internet links under 
subsection (b) shall include the following: 
(1) Links that provide information on how to 
enroll in a clinical trial referred to in subsection 
(b)(2)(B) and how to be treated under an outcomes- 
based treatment protocol referred to in such sub-
section. 
(2) Links to Federal electronic databases that 
are available to the public and provide disease-spe-
cific or condition-specific information, including such 
databases of the National Institutes of Health, the 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the 
Food and Drug Administration. 
(3) A link to the Internet site under section 
204(a) (relating to research and treatments carried 
out pursuant to section 201, and the identity of the 
health care practitioners involved). 
(4) A link to the Internet sites under sections 
201 and 202 of this Act and the Internet site under 
section 485D(i) of the Public Health Service Act (as 
added by section 203 of this Act). 
(d) DATE CERTAIN FOR OPERATION OF PROGRAM.— 
The Internet site under subsection (a) shall be established 
and ready for use by health care practitioners and lay per-
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