42 U.S.C. § 17902 — Application to private entities
submitted 17 years ago by Pub. L. 111-5 to r/title-42-THE-PUBLIC-HEALTH-AND-WELFARE · 93 words · no verdicts yet
Federal agencies must require health providers, plans, and insurers under contract to use approved health IT standards. This applies whenever those providers, plans, or insurers implement, buy, or upgrade health information technology.
Each agency, as defined in the Executive Order issued August 22, 2006, on promoting quality and efficient health care in federal government health programs, must require, in its contracts or agreements with health care providers, health plans, or health insurance issuers, that whenever those providers, plans, or issuers implement, buy, or upgrade health information technology systems, they use, where available, systems and products that meet the standards and implementation specifications adopted under section 300jj-14 of this title.
Each agency (as defined in such Executive Order issued on August 22, 2006, relating to promoting quality and efficient health care in Federal government administered or sponsored health care programs) shall require in contracts or agreements with health care providers, health plans, or health insurance issuers that as each provider, plan, or issuer implements, acquires, or upgrades health information technology systems, it shall utilize, where available, health information technology systems and products that meet standards and implementation specifications adopted under section 300jj–14 of this title, as added by section 13101.1
Source credit: (Pub. L. 111–5, div. A, title XIII, § 13112, Feb. 17, 2009, 123 Stat. 243.)
- 2009Enacted · Pub. L. 111-5 · 123 Stat. 243
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