3.0.0 3454 2023-01-13T04:50:40Z 2023-01-13T04:50:40Z Senate S S 2006-06-06 109 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2006-06-06T22:23:45Z Independent Health Record Bank Act of 2006 109 5559 HR 2006-06-23 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Related bill CRS 2006-06-06 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2006-06-06 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5504) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2006-06-06 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress B000953 Sen. Brownback, Sam [R-KS] SAM BROWNBACK R KS N T000024 Sen. Talent, Jim [R-MO] JIM TALENT R MO 2006-06-06 True Health Administrative procedure Bank accounts Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues Commerce Computer security measures Congressional reporting requirements Consumer education Crime and Law Enforcement Data banks Electronic data interchange Emergency Management Emergency medicine Employee training Federal Reserve System Federal preemption Fees Finance and Financial Sector Fines (Penalties) Government Operations and Politics Government paperwork Health care fraud Identification devices Income tax Labor and Employment Law Licenses Medical records Medical research Nonprofit organizations Right of privacy Science, Technology, Communications Security measures Social Welfare State laws Tax credits Tax exemption Taxation Health 00 2006-06-06 Introduced in Senate 2006-08-08T20:27:49Z Independent Health Record Bank Act of 2006 - Requires the Secretary of Commerce to prescribe standards for the establishment and certification of independent health record banks to store individual electronic health records.

Gives an individual ownership over his/her entire health record with the right to review its contents at any time during normal business hours.

Allows a bank to generate revenue through the sale of nonidentifiable and partially identifiable health information contained in the bank for research purposes, but requires that such revenue be shared with account holders and allows such revenue to be shared with health care providers and payers. Excludes any such revenue from the gross income of the bank, account holder, or health care provider or payer.

Requires prior authorization by an individual before access can be given to his/her electronic health record. Permits access to a limited, authenticated data set concerning an individual for emergency response purposes without the individual's prior consent.

Requires each state with a record bank operating in the state to designate a state agency to be responsible for addressing complaints.

Requires the Secretary, acting through the Under Secretary for Technology or other appropriate official, to: (1) develop a program to certify entities to operate independent health record banks; and (2) establish an interagency council to develop standards for federal security auditing for entities operating banks.

Imposes fines and/or imprisonment for the wrongful disclosure of information collected, maintained, or made available by a record bank.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish an independent health record bank account investment credit for amounts paid by an employer towards the maintenance of an employee's record bank account.

]]> Independent Health Record Bank Act of 2006 Display Title Independent Health Record Bank Act of 2006 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to improve the exchange of healthcare information through the use of technology, to encourage the creation, use and maintenance of lifetime electronic health records that may contain health plan and debit card functionality in independent health record banks, to use such records to build a nationwide health information technology infrastructure, and to promote participation in health information exchange by consumers through tax incentives and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Independent Health Record Bank Act of 2006 Introduced in Senate 2006-06-06T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-109s3454is/xml/BILLS-109s3454is.xml 2006-06-06 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.