(4) INTRAGOVERNMENTAL COORDINATOR.—The 
National Coordinator shall ensure that health infor-
mation technology policies and programs of the De-
partment of Health and Human Services are coordi-
nated with those of relevant executive branch agen-
cies and departments with a goal to avoid duplica-
tion of effort and to ensure that each agency or de-
partment conducts programs within the areas of its 
greatest expertise and its mission in order to create 
a national interoperable health information system 
capable of meeting national public health needs ef-
fectively and efficiently. 
(5) ADVISOR TO OMB.—The National Coordi-
nator shall provide to the Director of the Office of 
Management and Budget comments and advice with 
respect to specific Federal health information tech-
nology programs. 
(d) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be 
necessary to carry out this section for each of fiscal years 
2009 through 2013. 
(e) TREATMENT OF EXECUTIVE ORDER 13335.—Ex-
ecutive Order 13335 shall not have any force or effect 
after the date of the enactment of this Act. 
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(f) TRANSITION FROM ONCHIT UNDER EXECUTIVE 
ORDER.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—All functions, personnel, as-
sets, liabilities, administrative actions, and statutory 
reporting requirements applicable to the old Na-
tional Coordinator or the Office of the old National 
Coordinator on the date before the date of the enact-
ment of this Act shall be transferred, and applied in 
the same manner and under the same terms and 
conditions, to the new National Coordinator and the 
Office of the new National Coordinator as of the 
date of the enactment of this Act. 
(2) ACTING NATIONAL COORDINATOR.—Before 
the appointment of the new National Coordinator, 
the old National Coordinator shall act as the Na-
tional Coordinator for Health Information Tech-
nology until the office is filled as provided in sub-
section (a). The President may appoint the old Na-
tional Coordinator as the new National Coordinator. 
(3) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this sub-
section: 
(A) NEW NATIONAL COORDINATOR.—The 
term ‘‘new National Coordinator’’ means the 
National Coordinator for Health Information 
Technology appointed under subsection (a). 
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(B) OLD
NATIONAL
COORDINATOR.—The 
term ‘‘old National Coordinator’’ means the 
National Coordinator for Health Information 
Technology appointed under Executive Order 
13335. 
SEC. 102. SUCCESSOR TO THE AMERICAN HEALTH INFOR-
MATION COMMUNITY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Health and 
Human Services shall (through a grant, contract, or coop-
erative agreement) ensure the establishment and provide 
for the operation of an entity described in subsection (b) 
(in this Act to be referred to as ‘‘AHIC 2.0’’) for purposes 
of developing and recommending standards described in 
section 101(c)(3)(B)(i) for approval under such section. 
(b) STRUCTURE AND PROCEDURES OF ENTITY.—An 
entity described in this subsection is an entity— 
(1) in the operation of which there is broad par-
ticipation by a variety of public and private stake-
holders (whether through membership or through 
other means); 
(2) that uses a consensus approach and a fair 
and open process to support the development of 
standards under subsection (a); and 
(3) that has a business plan and a published set 
of governance rules that enables the entity to be 
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self-sustaining and to fulfill the purposes described 
in subsection (a). 
(c) CONSULTATION.—In establishing AHIC 2.0, the 
entity awarded a grant, contract, or cooperative agreement 
pursuant to subsection (a), shall consult with a wide vari-
ety of private and public stakeholders that are knowledge-
able with respect to standards to be developed by AHIC 
2.0 or that would be potentially affected by the rec-
ommendations of AHIC 2.0. 
(d) FUNDING.— 
(1) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.— 
There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out 
this section $13,000,000, to remain available until 
expended. 
(2) FURTHER FEDERAL FUNDING OTHER THAN 
DUES PROHIBITED.—Except as otherwise provided 
by this subsection, and except for such dues as may 
be paid by a Federal agency for membership or 
other participation in AHIC 2.0, no Federal agency 
may provide funding to the entity. There are author-
ized to be appropriated to such agencies such 
amounts as are necessary to pay the dues described 
in the previous sentence. 
(e) NONDUPLICATION OF EFFORTS TO ESTABLISH 
AHIC 2.0.—Nothing in this section shall be construed as 
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requiring the duplication of Federal efforts (such as 
awarding a grant, contract, or cooperative agreement) 
that were carried out before the date of the enactment 
of this Act, with respect to the establishment of an entity 
to support the development and recommendation of stand-
ards under subsection (a). 
(f) TREATMENT OF STANDARDS DEVELOPED OR AP-
PROVED BY AHIC.—For purposes of this title, a standard 
developed or approved (or in a stage of development or 
approval) by the American Health Information Commu-
nity established pursuant to Executive Order 13335 as of 
the day before the date of the enactment of this Act shall 
be deemed to be a standard developed or approved, respec-
tively, (or in such stage of development or approval) by 
AHIC 2.0 as of such date of enactment. 
SEC. 103. HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY RESOURCE 
CENTER. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—There is established within the 
Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information 
Technology the Health Information Technology Resource 
Center (referred to in this section as the ‘‘Center’’) to 
carry out the following functions: 
(1) Provide assistance and support for adoption 
and implementation efforts and effective use of 
interoperable health information technology. 
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