A bill to improve the exchange of health information by encouraging the creation, use, and maintenance of lifetime electronic health records in independent health record banks, by using such records to build a nationwide health information technology infrastructure, and by promoting participation in health information exchanges by consumers through tax incentives
Contributors: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce; United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means
Publisher: [United States Government Printing Office]
Published: 2006
Place of publication: [Washington, D.C.?]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 25
Subjects: Medical records; Data processing; Law and legislation; Information storage and retrieval systems; Medical care; Medical informatics; Electronic data interchange; Tax incentives
Other titles: Independent Health Record Bank Act of 2006.; 109th Congress, 2d Session, H.R. 5559 in the House of Representatives.; To improve the exchange of health information by encouraging the creation, use, and maintenance of lifetime electronic health records in independent health record banks, by using such records to build a nationwide health information technology infrastructure, and by promoting participation in health information exchanges by consumers through tax incentives.
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Introduced June 8, 2006; referred to the Committee Energy and Commerce and Committee on Ways and Means.