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Electronic Health Record Program Restructure, Enhance, Strengthen, and Empower Technology Act of 2023

H.R. 2809 · 118th Congress · Apr 24, 2023 · Lineage

A BILL

To authorize an electronic health record modernization program of the Department of Veterans Affairs and increase oversight and accountability of the program to better serve veterans, medical professionals of the Department, and taxpayers, and for other purposes.

Section 1 Short title; table of contents

(a)
Short title— This Act may be cited as the “Electronic Health Record Program Restructure, Enhance, Strengthen, and Empower Technology Act of 2023” or the “EHR Program RESET Act of 2023”.
(b)
Table of contents— The table of contents for this Act is as follows:

Sec. 2 Definitions

Except as otherwise provided, in this Act:
(1)
Appropriate committees of Congress— The term appropriate committees of Congress means—
(A)
the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; and
(B)
the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives.
(2)
Department— The term Department means the Department of Veterans Affairs.
(3)
Deputy Secretary— The term Deputy Secretary means the Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
(4)
Fourth Mission— The term Fourth Mission means the mission of the Department to improve the preparedness of the United States for response to war, terrorism, national emergency, and natural disaster.
(5)
Modernization; modernize— The terms modernization and modernize, with respect to the electronic health record and other relevant health information technology systems of the Department, means to replace, in whole or in part, overhaul, or upgrade such record or other system in a manner that gives such record or other system longevity and ability to constantly be updated to meet the needs of veterans, employees of the Department, and the Department.
(6)
New electronic health record— The term new electronic health record means any electronic health record provided for the Department on or after the date of the enactment of this Act, including pursuant to a contract entered into by the Department.
(7)
Oracle-Cerner product— The term Oracle-Cerner product means the product provided under the contract entered into by the Department with Cerner pursuant to the electronic health record modernization program of the Department before the date of the enactment of this Act.
(8)
Secretary— The term Secretary means the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
(9)
Under Secretary— The term Under Secretary means the Under Secretary for Health of the Department of Veterans Affairs.