25 U.S.C. § 1662 — Automated management information system
submitted 38 years ago by Pub. L. 94-437 to r/title-25-INDIANS · 287 words · no verdicts yet
The Secretary must create an automated management information system for the Service. The Secretary must also provide suitable systems to contracting tribes and organizations and give patients reasonable access to their Service-held records.
(a) Establishment. (1) The Secretary* must establish an automated management information system for the Service*. (2) It must include: (A) a financial-management system; (B) a patient-care information system for each area the Service serves; (C) a privacy component protecting patient information held by or for the Service; and (D) a cost-accounting component based on services that estimates the cost of specific medical treatments or services in each Service area* office.
(b) Provision to Indian tribes and organizations; reimbursement. (1) The Secretary must give each Indian tribe* or tribal organization* that provides health services under a contract with the Service under the Indian Self-Determination Act automated management information systems that: (A) meet that tribe’s or organization’s management-information needs for treating Service patients; and (B) meet the Service’s management-information needs. (2) The Secretary must reimburse each such tribe or organization for the part of operating-system costs attributable to its treatment of Service patients. (3) The Secretary must provide these systems to tribes and organizations providing health services in California by September 30, 1990.
(c) Access to records. Despite any other law, each patient must have reasonable access to that patient’s medical or health records held by or for the Service.
The Secretary* shall establish an automated management information system for the Service*.
The information system established under paragraph (1) shall include—
a financial management system,
a patient care information system for each area served by the Service,
a privacy component that protects the privacy of patient information held by, or on behalf of, the Service, and
a services-based cost accounting component that provides estimates of the costs associated with the provision of specific medical treatments or services in each area office* of the Service.
The Secretary shall provide each Indian tribe* and tribal organization* that provides health services under a contract entered into with the Service under the Indian Self-Determination Act [25 U.S.C. 5321 et seq.] automated management information systems which—
meet the management information needs of such Indian tribe or tribal organization with respect to the treatment by the Indian tribe or tribal organization of patients of the Service, and
meet the management information needs of the Service.
The Secretary shall reimburse each Indian tribe or tribal organization for the part of the cost of the operation of a system provided under paragraph (1) which is attributable to the treatment by such Indian tribe or tribal organization of patients of the Service.
The Secretary shall provide systems under paragraph (1) to Indian tribes and tribal organizations providing health services in California by no later than September 30, 1990.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, each patient shall have reasonable access to the medical or health records of such patient which are held by, or on behalf of, the Service.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 94–437, title VI, § 602, as added Pub. L. 100–713, title VI, § 601(a), Nov. 23, 1988, 102 Stat. 4825; amended Pub. L. 102–573, title IX, § 901(3), Oct. 29, 1992, 106 Stat. 4591.)
- 1988Enacted · Pub. L. 94-437 · 102 Stat. 4825
- 1992Amended · Pub. L. 102-573 · 106 Stat. 4591
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