3.0.0 4880 2023-01-14T22:48:19Z 2023-01-14T22:48:19Z House H HR 2004-07-21 108 hswm00 Ways and Means Committee House Standing hswm02 Health Subcommittee Referred to 2004-09-07T15:42:33Z Referred to 2004-07-21T14:00:15Z hsif00 Energy and Commerce Committee House Standing hsif14 Health Subcommittee Referred to 2004-07-22T18:26:39Z Referred to 2004-07-21T14:00:10Z 2004-09-07 hswm02 Health Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Committee 2004-07-22 hsif14 Health Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Committee 2004-07-21 Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hswm00 Ways and Means Committee 2004-07-21 Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. IntroReferral H11100-A 9 Library of Congress 2004-07-21 Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsif00 Energy and Commerce Committee 2004-07-21 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H1441-1442) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2004-07-21 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2004-07-21 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress K000113 Rep. Kennedy, Patrick J. [D-RI-1] PATRICK KENNEDY D RI J. 1 N C000380 Del. Christensen, Donna M. [D-VI-At Large] DONNA CHRISTENSEN D VI M. 0 2004-11-17 False Health Accreditation (Medical care) Administrative fees Administrative procedure Armed Forces and National Security Auditing Authorization Biological warfare Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues Coinsurance Commerce Communication in medicine Community health services Computer software Computers Conflict of interests Congress Congressional reporting requirements Cost effectiveness Crime and Law Enforcement Data banks Department of Defense Department of Health and Human Services Department of Veterans Affairs Economics and Public Finance Education Electronic data interchange Employee health benefits Encryption Epidemiology Executive reorganization Federal advisory bodies Federal aid to education Federal aid to health facilities Federal aid to research Federal employees Government Operations and Politics Government employees' health insurance Government lending Government paperwork Government publicity Governmental investigations Graduate education Grants-in-aid Group medical practice Health care industry Health information systems Health maintenance organizations Health planning Health surveys Higher education Hospital rates Hospitals Identification devices Information technology Intergovernmental fiscal relations Labor and Employment Law Managed care Medicaid Medical education Medical ethics Medical fees Medical laboratories Medical records Medical research Medical statistics Medical technology Medicare Military medicine Nursing education Nursing homes Patient satisfaction Patients' rights Performance measurement Pharmacies Physicians Public health Quality of care Research grants Restrictive trade practices Right of privacy Scholarships Science, Technology, Communications Social Welfare Standards Terrorism Veterans' medical care Health 00 2004-07-21 Introduced in House 2004-10-26T17:57:18Z Josie King Act of 2004 or Quality, Efficiency, Standards, and Technology for Health Care Transformation Act of 2004 - Allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary) to award grants and offer loans to health information infrastructure organizations and States to develop, implement, and maintain health information exchanges.

Requires the Secretaries of Health and Human Services, Defense, and Veteran Affairs to: (1) adopt data standards for the interoperability of health information technology systems; and (2) incorporate measures of health care practitioner performance into their health care programs.

Requires the Secretary to establish a methodology for adjusting Medicare payments for providers who participate in a health information exchange or use other such technology.

Requires the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Resources and Quality to enter into an agreement with the Institute of Medicine to establish the Consortium for Health Outcomes Research Priorities to: (1) establish priorities for research relating to the effectiveness and efficiency of health care; and (2) identify priorities for developing standardized measures of health care provider performance.

Allows the Director to award grants for scholarships to health care professionals to earn advanced degrees in the field of health care quality and patient safety.

Requires the Secretary to establish a claims-based and a clinical-based practitioner performance database. Allows group health plans to submit data to the claims-based database in exchange for Medicare claims data. Requires such contributions to the database after 4 years. Allows health care practitioners to submit data to the clinical-based database.

Allows the Secretary to provide for Medicare payment adjustments based on performance measurements of physicians and institutions.

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