25 U.S.C. § 1662: Automated management…

Summary

The Secretary must create a computerized management information system for the Service. The system must include a financial module, a patient-care records system for each area the Service serves, a privacy piece that protects patient information kept by or for the Service, and a cost-accounting piece that estimates how much specific medical treatments or services cost in each area office. The Secretary must give these computer systems to Indian tribes and tribal organizations that run health services under contracts with the Service under the Indian Self-Determination Act. The systems must meet both the tribe’s and the Service’s management needs. The Secretary must pay back tribes for the part of the system costs tied to treating the Service’s patients. Systems for tribes in California had to be provided by September 30, 1990. Each patient must have reasonable access to their medical or health records held by or for the Service.

Title 25, §1662

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(a)Establishment

(1)The Secretary shall establish an automated management information system for the Service.

(2)The information system established under paragraph (1) shall include—

(A)a financial management system,

(B)a patient care information system for each area served by the Service,

(C)a privacy component that protects the privacy of patient information held by, or on behalf of, the Service, and

(D)a services-based cost accounting component that provides estimates of the costs associated with the provision of specific medical treatments or services in each area office of the Service.

(b)Provision to Indian tribes and organizations; reimbursement

(1)The Secretary shall provide each Indian tribe and tribal organization that provides health services under a contract entered into with the Service under the Indian Self-Determination Act [25 U.S.C. 5321 et seq.] automated management information systems which—

(A)meet the management information needs of such Indian tribe or tribal organization with respect to the treatment by the Indian tribe or tribal organization of patients of the Service, and

(B)meet the management information needs of the Service.

(2)The Secretary shall reimburse each Indian tribe or tribal organization for the part of the cost of the operation of a system provided under paragraph (1) which is attributable to the treatment by such Indian tribe or tribal organization of patients of the Service.

(3)The Secretary shall provide systems under paragraph (1) to Indian tribes and tribal organizations providing health services in California by no later than September 30, 1990.

(c)Access to records

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, each patient shall have reasonable access to the medical or health records of such patient which are held by, or on behalf of, the Service.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The Indian Self-Determination Act, referred to in subsec. (b)(1), is title I of Pub. L. 93–638, Jan. 4, 1975, 88 Stat. 2206, which is classified principally to subchapter I (§ 5321 et seq.) of chapter 46 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 5301 of this title and Tables.

Amendments

1992—Subsec. (a)(3). Pub. L. 102–573 struck out par. (3) which directed Secretary to submit report to Congress no later than Sept. 30, 1989.

§1662 Automated Management Information System