[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
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[H.R. 4245 Referred in Senate (RFS)]
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115th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 4245
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
May 22, 2018
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs
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AN ACT
To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to submit to Congress
certain documents relating to the Electronic Health Record
Modernization Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Veterans' Electronic Health Record
Modernization Oversight Act of 2017''.
SEC. 2. OVERSIGHT OF ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD MODERNIZATION PROGRAM.
(a) Program Documents.--Not later than 30 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall
submit to the appropriate congressional committees the following
documents concerning the Electronic Health Record Modernization
Program:
(1) Integrated Master Plan.
(2) Integrated Master Schedule.
(3) Program Management Plan.
(4) Annual and lifecycle cost estimates, including, at a
minimum, cost elements relating to--
(A) Federal Government labor;
(B) contractor labor;
(C) hardware;
(D) software; and
(E) testing and evaluation.
(5) Cost baseline.
(6) Risk Management Plan.
(7) Health IT Strategic Architecture Plan.
(8) Transition Plan for implementing updated architecture.
(9) Data Migration Plan.
(10) System and Data Security Plan.
(11) Application Implementation Plan.
(12) System Design Documents.
(13) Legacy Veterans Information Systems and Technology
Architecture Standardization, Security Enhancement, and
Consolidation Project Plan.
(14) Health Data Interoperability Management Plan.
(15) Community Care Vision and Implementation Plan,
including milestones and a detailed description of how complete
interoperability with non-Department health care providers will
be achieved.
(b) Quarterly Updates.--Not later than 30 days after the end of
each fiscal quarter during the period beginning with the fiscal quarter
in which this Act is enacted and ending on the date on which the
Electronic Health Record Modernization Program is completed, the
Secretary shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees the
most recent updated versions, if any exist, of the following documents:
(1) Integrated Master Schedule.
(2) Program Management Plan, including any written Program
Management Review material developed for the Program Management
Plan during the fiscal quarter covered by the submission.
(3) Each document described in subsection (a)(4).
(4) Performance Baseline Report for the fiscal quarter
covered by the submission or for the fiscal quarter ending the
fiscal year prior to the submission.
(5) Budget Reconciliation Report.
(6) Risk Management Plan and Risk Register.
(c) Contracts.--Not later than 5 days after awarding a contract,
order, or agreement, including any modifications thereto, under the
Electronic Health Record Modernization Program, the Secretary shall
submit to the appropriate congressional committees a copy of the entire
such contract, order, agreement, or modification.
(d) Notification.--
(1) Requirement.--Not later than 10 days after an event
described in paragraph (2) occurs, the Secretary shall notify
the appropriate congressional committees of such occurrence,
including a description of the event and an explanation for why
such event occurred.
(2) Event described.--An event described in this paragraph
is any of the following events regarding the Electronic Health
Record Modernization Program:
(A) The delay of any milestone or deliverable by 30
or more days.
(B) A request for equitable adjustment, equitable
adjustment, or change order exceeding $1,000,000 (as
such terms are defined in the Federal Acquisition
Regulation).
(C) The submission of any protest, claim, or
dispute, and the resolution of any protest, claim, or
dispute (as such terms are defined in the Federal
Acquisition Regulation).
(D) A loss of clinical or other data.
(E) A breach of patient privacy, including any--
(i) disclosure of protected health
information that is not permitted under
regulations promulgated under section 264(c) of
the Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-191;
42 U.S.C. 1320d-2 note); and
(ii) breach of sensitive personal
information (as defined in section 5727 of
title 38, United States Code).
(e) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) The term ``appropriate congressional committees''
means--
(A) the Committees on Veterans' Affairs of the
House of Representatives and the Senate; and
(B) the Committees on Appropriations of the House
of Representatives and the Senate.
(2) The term ``Electronic Health Record Modernization
Program'' means--
(A) any activities by the Department of Veterans
Affairs to procure or implement an electronic health or
medical record system to replace any or all of the
Veterans Information Systems and Technology
Architecture, the Computerized Patient Record System,
the Joint Legacy Viewer, or the Enterprise Health
Management Platform; and
(B) any contracts or agreements entered into by the
Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out, support, or
analyze the activities under subparagraph (A).
Passed the House of Representatives May 21, 2018.
Attest:
KAREN L. HAAS,
Clerk.