---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 1662"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "1662"
heading: "Automated management information system"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/1662"
units:
  - "Chapter 18 — Indian Health Care"
  - "Subchapter V — Organizational Improvements"
---

# §1662. Automated management information system

- (a) **Establishment—**
  - (1) The [Secretary](/usc/25/1603.md?p=17) shall establish an automated management information system for the [Service](/usc/25/1603.md?p=18).
  - (2) The information system established under [paragraph (1)](#a-1) shall include—
    - (A) a financial management system,
    - (B) a patient care information system for each area served by the [Service](/usc/25/1603.md?p=18),
    - (C) a privacy component that protects the privacy of patient information held by, or on behalf of, the [Service](/usc/25/1603.md?p=18), and
    - (D) a [services](/usc/25/1603.md?p=18)-based cost accounting component that provides estimates of the costs associated with the provision of specific medical treatments or [services](/usc/25/1603.md?p=18) in each [area office](/usc/25/1603.md?p=1) of the [Service](/usc/25/1603.md?p=18).
- (b) **Provision to Indian tribes and organizations; reimbursement—**
  - (1) The [Secretary](/usc/25/1603.md?p=17) shall provide each [Indian tribe](/usc/25/1603.md?p=14) and [tribal organization](/usc/25/1603.md?p=26) that provides health [services](/usc/25/1603.md?p=18) under a contract entered into with the [Service](/usc/25/1603.md?p=18) under the [Indian](/usc/25/1603.md?p=13) Self-Determination Act [[25 U.S.C. 5321](/usc/25/5321.md) et seq.] automated management information systems which—
    - (A) meet the management information needs of such [Indian tribe](/usc/25/1603.md?p=14) or [tribal organization](/usc/25/1603.md?p=26) with respect to the treatment by the [Indian tribe](/usc/25/1603.md?p=14) or [tribal organization](/usc/25/1603.md?p=26) of patients of the [Service](/usc/25/1603.md?p=18), and
    - (B) meet the management information needs of the [Service](/usc/25/1603.md?p=18).
  - (2) The [Secretary](/usc/25/1603.md?p=17) shall reimburse each [Indian tribe](/usc/25/1603.md?p=14) or [tribal organization](/usc/25/1603.md?p=26) for the part of the cost of the operation of a system provided under [paragraph (1)](#b-1) which is attributable to the treatment by such [Indian tribe](/usc/25/1603.md?p=14) or [tribal organization](/usc/25/1603.md?p=26) of patients of the [Service](/usc/25/1603.md?p=18).
  - (3) The [Secretary](/usc/25/1603.md?p=17) shall provide systems under [paragraph (1)](#b-1) to [Indian tribes](/usc/25/1603.md?p=14) and [tribal organizations](/usc/25/1603.md?p=26) providing health [services](/usc/25/1603.md?p=18) in California by no later than September 30, 1990.
- (c) **Access to records—** Notwithstanding any other provision of law, each patient shall have reasonable access to the medical or health records of such patient which are held by, or on behalf of, the [Service](/usc/25/1603.md?p=18).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–437, title VI, § 602, as added Pub. L. 100–713, title VI, § 601(a), Nov. 23, 1988, 102 Stat. 4825; amended Pub. L. 102–573, title IX, § 901(3), Oct. 29, 1992, 106 Stat. 4591.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Indian Self-Determination Act, referred to in subsec. (b)(1), is title I of Pub. L. 93–638, Jan. 4, 1975, 88 Stat. 2206, which is classified principally to subchapter I (§ 5321 et seq.) of chapter 46 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 5301 of this title and Tables.

### Amendments

1992—Subsec. (a)(3). Pub. L. 102–573 struck out par. (3) which directed Secretary to submit report to Congress no later than Sept. 30, 1989.