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42 U.S.C. § 286d — National Information Center

submitted 82 years ago by Pub. L. 103-43 to r/title-42-THE-PUBLIC-HEALTH-AND-WELFARE · 185 words · no verdicts yet

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This law creates a National Information Center inside the National Library of Medicine. It collects and shares research on health services, clinical guidelines, and health care technology. The Center must keep clinical guidelines in an accessible electronic format and coordinate with another health research agency.

(a) Establishment. This section creates the National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (the "Center") inside the Library. (b) Purpose. The Center's job is collecting, storing, analyzing, retrieving, and sharing information about health services research, clinical practice guidelines, and health care technology — including assessing that technology. This includes building and maintaining databases and developing ways to carry out this work. (c) Electronic, convenient format; criteria for inclusion. The Center's Director must make sure information about clinical practice guidelines is collected and kept electronically, in a convenient format. The Director must also develop and publish criteria for deciding which practice guidelines and technology assessments go into the Center's database. (d) Coordination with Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The Secretary, acting through the Center, must coordinate this section's activities with the related work of the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain
(a) Establishment

There is established within the Library an entity to be known as the National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (in this section referred to as the “Center”).

(b) Purpose

The purpose of the Center is the collection, storage, analysis, retrieval, and dissemination of information on health services research, clinical practice guidelines, and on health care technology, including the assessment of such technology. Such purpose includes developing and maintaining data bases and developing and implementing methods of carrying out such purpose.

(c) Electronic, convenient format; criteria for inclusion

The Director of the Center shall ensure that information under subsection (b) concerning clinical practice guidelines is collected and maintained electronically and in a convenient format. Such Director shall develop and publish criteria for the inclusion of practice guidelines and technology assessments in the information center database.

(d) Coordination with Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

The Secretary, acting through the Center, shall coordinate the activities carried out under this section through the Center with related activities of the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Source credit: (July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title IV, § 478A, as added Pub. L. 103–43, title XIV, § 1421, June 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 171; amended Pub. L. 106–129, § 2(b)(2), Dec. 6, 1999, 113 Stat. 1670.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit
  • 1944Enacted · Pub. L. 103-43 · 107 Stat. 171
  • 1999Amended · Pub. L. 106-129 · 113 Stat. 1670

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 103-43 on 1944-07-01.

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