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Roundtable on Using Health Information Technology to Improve Mental Health and Substance Use Care Outcomes

Section 211 · Sec. 211 ·

What this chapter is about

This part orders a public meeting on health records. The meeting looks at using digital records in mental health care. Many kinds of people must be invited. A report on the meeting goes to Congress.

3 proposals indexed from this chapter.

A public roundtable on electronic health records is due within 180 days

The document says “shall”Who acts: National Coordinator for Health Information TechnologyHow: statuteSec. 211 in the PDF
What the document says

“Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology shall convene a public roundtable to examine--”

To reauthorize certain programs that provide for opioid use disorder prevention, treatment, and recovery, and for other purposes, Sec. 211

The section directs the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology to convene a public roundtable within 180 days of enactment, to examine how wider use of electronic health records among mental health and substance use providers can improve patient outcomes, and how best to increase adoption among those providers.

What the document actually says

“Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology shall convene a public roundtable to examine--”

To reauthorize certain programs that provide for opioid use disorder prevention, treatment, and recovery, and for other purposes, Sec. 211
That sentence, in plain words

A public meeting must be held within 180 days. It looks at digital health records. It asks how they help patients and how to spread their use.

What this is about

An electronic health record is a patient chart kept on a computer. Hospitals use them widely. Mental health clinics use them less.

No action is recorded against this proposal. That is not evidence that none has been taken, and nobody has yet read it against the record. See what the tracker does not yet cover.

The roundtable must include patients, providers, payors and vendors

The document says “shall”Who acts: National Coordinator for Health Information TechnologyHow: statuteSec. 211 in the PDF
What the document says

“The National Coordinator for Health Information Technology shall ensure that the participants in the roundtable under subsection (a) include private and public sector stakeholders, including patients, providers (including providers of inpatient services and providers of outpatient services), and representatives of payors, health information exchanges, professional associations, health information technology vendors, health information technology certification organizations, and State and Federal agencies.”

To reauthorize certain programs that provide for opioid use disorder prevention, treatment, and recovery, and for other purposes, Sec. 211

The section requires the roundtable to include private and public sector stakeholders, and names patients, inpatient and outpatient providers, payors, health information exchanges, professional associations, technology vendors, certification bodies, and State and Federal agencies.

What the document actually says

“The National Coordinator for Health Information Technology shall ensure that the participants in the roundtable under subsection (a) include private and public sector stakeholders, including patients, providers (including providers of inpatient services and providers of outpatient services), and representatives of payors, health information exchanges, professional associations, health information technology vendors, health information technology certification organizations, and State and Federal agencies.”

To reauthorize certain programs that provide for opioid use disorder prevention, treatment, and recovery, and for other purposes, Sec. 211
That sentence, in plain words

The meeting must include many kinds of people. Patients and doctors are named. So are those who pay the bills and those who build the software.

What this is about

Inpatient care means staying overnight. Outpatient care means going home the same day. Both kinds of provider must be at the table.

No action is recorded against this proposal. That is not evidence that none has been taken, and nobody has yet read it against the record. See what the tracker does not yet cover.

A report on the roundtable goes to two committees of Congress

The document says “shall”Who acts: National Coordinator for Health Information TechnologyHow: statuteSec. 211 in the PDF
What the document says

“Not later than 180 days after the conclusion of the public stakeholder roundtable under subsection (a), the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology shall submit to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives a report outlining information gathered from the roundtable under subsection (a).”

To reauthorize certain programs that provide for opioid use disorder prevention, treatment, and recovery, and for other purposes, Sec. 211

The section requires a report within 180 days after the roundtable ends. It must examine eleven listed matters, among them what the participants recommended, how much such providers use these systems now, the costs of adopting them, what limits wider use, how the systems could connect to the 9-8-8 line and to mobile crisis teams, and what States have found works.

What the document actually says

“Not later than 180 days after the conclusion of the public stakeholder roundtable under subsection (a), the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology shall submit to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives a report outlining information gathered from the roundtable under subsection (a).”

To reauthorize certain programs that provide for opioid use disorder prevention, treatment, and recovery, and for other purposes, Sec. 211
That sentence, in plain words

A report is due 180 days after the meeting ends. It goes to two groups in Congress. It sets out what the meeting turned up.

What this is about

The law lists eleven things the report must cover. They range from cost to what gets in the way. One asks how records could link to the 9-8-8 crisis line.

No action is recorded against this proposal. That is not evidence that none has been taken, and nobody has yet read it against the record. See what the tracker does not yet cover.

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What This Page Covers, and What It Leaves Out

The three things the section requires: the roundtable and the two questions it must examine, who must take part, and the report to Congress with its eleven listed contents.

The eleven contents of the report are recorded in summary rather than as separate items, because they are the parts of one report and not eleven distinct duties.

The section amends no older statute. It refers to the 9-8-8 National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and to certification requirements for health information technology, neither of which is indexed here.