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Legislative Tracking

U.S. Government (Federal Level)

2006

• S. 3678 - Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act.  Sponsor: Burr - July 18, 2006
• S. 3739 - Consortium on the Impact of Technology in Aging Health Services Act of 2006.  Sponsors: Coleman, Reed, Kohl, and Martinez - July 26, 2006 (also introduced in House as H.R. 5906, Sponsors: Ramstad, Eshoo, and Kennedy)
• H.R. 5864 - Health Partnership Through Creative Federalism Act.  Sponsors: Baldwin, Price, Tierney, and Beauprez - July 24, 2006

2005

• S.1262 – Health Technology to Enhance Quality Act of 2005
  The “Health TEQ Act". Sponsors: Frist, Clinton, Martinez, Bingaman, Talent, Mikulski, Thune, Obama - June 16, 2005
• S. 1223 - Information Technology for HealthCare Quality Act
  Sponsor: Dodd - June 9, 2005
• S. 1227 - Health Information Technology Act of 2005. Sponsors: Stabenow, Snowe - June 13, 2005
• S. 1355 - Better Healthcare Through Information Technology Act  Sponsors: Enzi, Kennedy, Grassley, Baucus, Dodd, Alexander, Harkin, Isakson, Mikulski, Dewine, Jeffords, Hatch, Murray, Reed, Allen, Burns, Crapo, DeMint, Santorum, Thomas, Cantwell - June 30, 2005
• S. 1356 - Medicare Value Purchasing Act of 2005

Sponsor: Grassley, Baucus, Enzi, Kennedy -

June 30, 2005

• S. 1418 - Wired for Health Care Quality Act
  Sponsors: Enzi, Frist, Kennedy, Clinton - July 18, 2005
• S. 1789 - Personal Data Privacy and Security Act of 2005 (Reported in Senate)

Sponsors: Specter, Leahy, Feinstein, Feingold - September 29, 2005

Note: this bill does not apply to entities covered under HIPAA

• H.R. 2234 - 21st Century Health Information Act of 2005
  Sponsors: Murphy, Kennedy - May 10, 2005
• H.R. 3205 - Patient Safety & Quality Improvement Act  Sponsor: Bilirakis - July 12, 2005
• H.R. 4157 - Health Information Technology Promotion Act of 2005 Sponsors: Johnson, and 59 co-sponsors - October 27, 2005
• H.R. 4641 - Assisting Doctors to Obtain Proficient and Transmissible Health Information Technology (ADOPT HIT) Act of 2005   Sponsors: Gingrey, Moore Capito, Garrett, McMorris, Norwood - December 18, 2005

Massachusetts

2006

• H.R. 4857 - Corrected Reprint of H.R. 4479 .  Sponsor: Romney - April 12, 2006

2005

• H.R. 4479 - Act Promoting Access to Health Care  Sponsors (House bill No. 4463, as changed by the committee on Bills in the
  Third Reading and as amended and passed to be engrossed by the House. November 3, 2005)
• S. 2042 - Health Access, Affordability and Accountability
  Sponsors: Travaglini, Moore, Murray, Chandler, et al. - April 11, 2005
• H. 2924 - Recommending legislation relative to establishing the commonwealth care health insurance exchange corporation
  Sponsor: Gov. Mitt Romney
• S. 738 - Health Access and Affordability Act
  Sponsors: Moore, Montigny, O'Leary, Barrios - January 26, 2005

Legislative Trackers

• Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) State Legislation Tracker
• HIMSS Healthcare IT Legislation Crosswalk

White Papers

• "States Getting Connected: Quality and Safety Driving Health IT Planning in a Majority of the States in the United States", eHIissuebrief, July 2006

 

This page last updated August 30, 2006

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