§17912 — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

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The Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology must set up a competitive grant program, working with the Director of the National Science Foundation and other federal agencies, to help colleges or consortia (which can include nonprofits and federal labs) create multidisciplinary Centers for Health Care Information Enterprise Integration. Grants will be awarded on merit. The centers must do advanced research to find new ways to connect and use health information technologies and related fields. Research may cover things like user interfaces, voice recognition, software that links systems, system reliability, measuring effects on quality and productivity, management of health information systems, security and integrity, and tools to cut medical errors. Applicants must apply to NIST and describe their research plans and partner roles; how they will bring together fields such as IT, biological sciences, management, and social sciences; how they will share and spread results; and how they will train researchers and professionals. The Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program established by section 5511 of title 15 must include federal R&D programs related to health information technology.

Title 42, §17912

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(a)(1)The Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, in consultation with the Director of the National Science Foundation and other appropriate Federal agencies, shall establish a program of assistance to institutions of higher education (or consortia thereof which may include nonprofit entities and Federal Government laboratories) to establish multidisciplinary Centers for Health Care Information Enterprise Integration.

(2)Grants shall be awarded under this subsection on a merit-reviewed, competitive basis.

(3)The purposes of the Centers described in paragraph (1) shall be—

(A)to generate innovative approaches to health care information enterprise integration by conducting cutting-edge, multidisciplinary research on the systems challenges to health care delivery; and

(B)the development and use of health information technologies and other complementary fields.

(4)Research areas may include—

(A)interfaces between human information and communications technology systems;

(B)voice-recognition systems;

(C)software that improves interoperability and connectivity among health information systems;

(D)software dependability in systems critical to health care delivery;

(E)measurement of the impact of information technologies on the quality and productivity of health care;

(F)health information enterprise management;

(G)health information technology security and integrity; and

(H)relevant health information technology to reduce medical errors.

(5)An institution of higher education (or a consortium thereof) seeking funding under this subsection shall submit an application to the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Director may require. The application shall include, at a minimum, a description of—

(A)the research projects that will be undertaken by the Center established pursuant to assistance under paragraph (1) and the respective contributions of the participating entities;

(B)how the Center will promote active collaboration among scientists and engineers from different disciplines, such as information technology, biologic sciences, management, social sciences, and other appropriate disciplines;

(C)technology transfer activities to demonstrate and diffuse the research results, technologies, and knowledge; and

(D)how the Center will contribute to the education and training of researchers and other professionals in fields relevant to health information enterprise integration.

(b)The Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program established by section 5511 of title 15 shall include Federal research and development programs related to health information technology.

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2017—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 114–329 substituted “Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program” for “National High-Performance Computing Program”.

§17912 Research and Development Programs

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