42 U.S.C. § 300jj — Definitions

(1) Certified EHR technology - This is a "qualified electronic health record" (defined in paragraph (13)) that has been certified under section 300jj-11(c)(5) as meeting the standards adopted under section 300jj-14 that fit the kind of record involved, as the Secretary decides - for example, an ambulatory record for a doctor's office or an inpatient record for a hospital. (2) Enterprise integration - This means electronically linking health care providers, health plans, the government, and other interested parties so health information can be exchanged and used across the whole health care system, consistent with applicable law. It includes related application protocols and other related standards. (3) Health care provider - This term includes: a hospital; a skilled nursing facility; a nursing facility; a home health entity or other long-term care facility; a health care clinic; a community mental health center (as defined in section 300x-2(b)(1)); a renal dialysis facility; a blood center; an ambulatory surgical center described in section 1395l(i); an emergency medical services provider; a federally qualified health center; a group practice; a pharmacist; a pharmacy; a laboratory; a physician (as defined in section 1395x(r)); a practitioner (as described in section 1395u(b)(18)(C)); a provider operated by or under contract with the Indian Health Service, an Indian tribe, a tribal organization, or an urban Indian organization (as those terms are defined elsewhere in the law); a rural health clinic; a covered entity under section 256b; a therapist (as defined in section 1395w-4(k)(3)(B)(iii)); and any other category of health care facility, entity, practitioner, or clinician the Secretary decides is appropriate. (4) Health information - This has the same meaning given to it in section 1320d(4) of this title. (5) Health information technology - This means hardware, software, combined technologies or related licenses, intellectual property, upgrades, or bundled services sold to health care entities or patients, designed for or supporting the electronic creation, keeping, access, or exchange of health information. (6) Health plan - This has the same meaning given to it in section 1320d(5) of this title. (7) HIT Advisory Committee - This means the Committee established under section 300jj-12(a). (8) Individually identifiable health information - This has the same meaning given to it in section 1320d(6) of this title. (9) Interoperability - For health information technology, this means technology that: (A) lets a user securely exchange and use electronic health information with other health information technology, without special effort; (B) allows complete access to, exchange of, and use of all electronically accessible health information, to the extent authorized under applicable State or federal law; and (C) does not amount to "information blocking" as defined in section 300jj-52(a). (10) Laboratory - This has the same meaning given to it in section 263a(a) of this title. (11) National Coordinator - This means the head of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, established under section 300jj-11(a). (12) Pharmacist - This has the same meaning given to it in section 384(2) of title 21. (13) Qualified electronic health record - This is an electronic record of an individual's health-related information that: (A) includes patient demographic information and clinical health information, such as medical history and problem lists; (B) can (i) provide clinical decision support, (ii) support physician order entry, (iii) capture and look up information relevant to health care quality, and (iv) exchange electronic health information with, and pull in information from, other sources; and (C) includes, or can include, a real-time benefit tool showing a patient's real-time cost and coverage information for prescription drugs. For technology certified for electronic prescribing specifically, it must be able to incorporate the cost and coverage information described in clauses (i) through (iii), starting on a date the Secretary sets - but not before the Secretary adopts a standard for such tools under the related provision. Note: the supplied text moves directly from paragraph (13) to paragraph (15); no paragraph (14) appears in it. (15) State - This means each of the several states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands.