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Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-110

§17901 Coordination of Federal Activities with Adopted Standards and Implementation Specifications

Title 42 › CHAPTER 156 — HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY › SUBCHAPTER I — APPLICATION AND USE OF ADOPTED HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY STANDARDS; REPORTS › § 17901

Last updated Sep 23, 2026|Official source

Summary

When an agency, as defined by the OMB Director after talking with the HHS Secretary, buys, builds, or upgrades computer systems that directly share identifiable health information with other agencies or with outside groups, it must use systems and products that meet the official health IT standards and technical rules when those are available. Within three years after those standards are adopted, the President must make sure federal programs that broadly collect or send health data follow them. Words used here follow the meanings in the main health information technology law.

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Title 42, §17901

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

(a)Spending on health information technology systems
As each agency (as defined by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services) implements, acquires, or upgrades health information technology systems used for the direct exchange of individually identifiable health information between agencies and with non-Federal entities, it shall utilize, where available, health information technology systems and products that meet standards and implementation specifications adopted under section 300jj–14 of this title, as added by section 13101.
(b)Federal information collection activities
With respect to a standard or implementation specification adopted under section 300jj–14 of this title, as added by section 13101, the President shall take measures to ensure that Federal activities involving the broad collection and submission of health information are consistent with such standard or implementation specification, respectively, within three years after the date of such adoption.
(c)Application of definitions
The definitions contained in section 300jj of this title, as added by section 13101,1 shall apply for purposes of this subchapter.

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section 13101, referred to in text, means section 13101 of div. A of Pub. L. 111–5.

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42 U.S.C. § 17901

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Sep 23, 2026

Release point: 119-110