Title 42 — The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-73

§300jj–36 Information technology professionals in health care

Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 6A— - PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER XXVIII— - HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND QUALITY › Part Part B— - Incentives for the Use of Health Information Technology › § 300jj–36

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of Health, working with the head of the National Science Foundation, must help colleges or groups of colleges start or grow medical health informatics programs. These can be certificate, undergraduate, or master’s programs for health care and IT students so the U.S. health system can use and build health information technology faster and better. Help can pay for updating courses, recruiting and keeping students, buying teaching equipment (including test networks), and creating or improving bridge programs between community colleges and universities. Preference must be given to programs already in place and to programs designed to be finished in less than six months.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §300jj–36

The Public Health and Welfare — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)The Secretary, in consultation with the Director of the National Science Foundation, shall provide assistance to institutions of higher education (or consortia thereof) to establish or expand medical health informatics education programs, including certification, undergraduate, and masters degree programs, for both health care and information technology students to ensure the rapid and effective utilization and development of health information technologies (in the United States health care infrastructure).

(b)Activities for which assistance may be provided under subsection (a) may include the following:

(1)Developing and revising curricula in medical health informatics and related disciplines.

(2)Recruiting and retaining students to the program involved.

(3)Acquiring equipment necessary for student instruction in these programs, including the installation of testbed networks for student use.

(4)Establishing or enhancing bridge programs in the health informatics fields between community colleges and universities.

(c)In providing assistance under subsection (a), the Secretary shall give preference to the following:

(1)Existing education and training programs.

(2)Programs designed to be completed in less than six months.

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 300jj–36

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73