3.0.0 2254 2020-02-10T17:00:02Z 2020-02-10T17:00:02Z Senate S S 2012-03-29 112 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2012-03-29T16:23:03Z ID MEDS Act 112 4292 HR 2012-03-30 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Identical bill CRS 2012-03-29 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2012-03-29 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress P000449 Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH] Rob Portman R OH N W000802 Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI] Sheldon Whitehouse D RI 2012-03-29 True Health Administrative law and regulatory procedures Congressional oversight Department of Justice Drug trafficking and controlled substances Drug, alcohol, tobacco use Fraud offenses and financial crimes Health information and medical records Health programs administration and funding Intergovernmental relations Prescription drugs State and local government operations Health 00 2012-03-29 Introduced in Senate 2012-07-11T18:30:28Z Interstate Drug Monitoring Efficiency and Data Sharing Act of 2012 or the ID MEDS Act - Directs the Attorney General to establish national interoperability standards to facilitate the exchange of prescription information by states receiving grant funds under the Harold Rogers Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (Rogers Program) and the Controlled Substance Monitoring Program (CS Program).

Directs the Attorney General to ensure that such standards: (1) implement open standards that are freely available to promote broad implementation; (2) provide for the use of exchange intermediaries to facilitate interstate interoperability; (3) support transmissions that are fully secured, using industry standard methods of encryption, to ensure that protected health information and personally identifiable information are not compromised during transmission; and (4) employ access control methodologies to share protected information solely in accordance with state laws and regulations.

Requires a grant recipient under the Rogers Program to ensure that the state databases comply with the national interoperability standards. Allows a recipient of an enhancement grant under such Program to use grant funds to standardize the technology architecture used by the recipient to comply with such standards.

Amends the Public Health Service Act to require states to ensure that databases established under the CS Program comply with such standards.

Directs the Attorney General to report on enhancing the interoperability of state prescription monitoring programs with other technologies and databases used for detecting and reducing fraud, diversion, and abuse of prescription drugs.

]]> ID MEDS Act Short Titles as Introduced ID MEDS Act Short Titles as Introduced Interstate Drug Monitoring Efficiency and Data Sharing Act of 2012 Display Title ID MEDS Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to direct the Attorney General to establish uniform standards for the exchange of controlled substance and prescription information for the purpose of preventing diversion, fraud, and abuse of controlled substances and other prescription drugs. Introduced in Senate 2012-03-29T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-112s2254is/xml/BILLS-112s2254is.xml 2012-03-29 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. 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.