---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 300jj–37"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "300jj–37"
heading: "General grant and loan provisions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/300jj-37"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter XXVIII — Health Information Technology and Quality"
  - "Part B — Incentives for the Use of Health Information Technology"
---

# §300jj–37. General grant and loan provisions

- (a) **Reports—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) may require that an entity receiving assistance under this part shall submit to the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c), not later than the date that is 1 year after the date of receipt of such assistance, a report that includes—
  - (1) an analysis of the effectiveness of the activities for which the entity receives such assistance, as compared to the goals for such activities; and
  - (2) an analysis of the impact of the [project](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) on health care quality and safety.
- (b) **Requirement to improve quality of care and decrease in costs—** The [National Coordinator](/usc/42/300jj.md?p=11) shall annually evaluate the activities conducted under this part and shall, in awarding grants, implement the lessons learned from such evaluation in a manner so that awards made subsequent to each such evaluation are made in a manner that, in the determination of the [National Coordinator](/usc/42/300jj.md?p=11), will result in the greatest improvement in the quality and efficiency of health care.

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XXX, § 3017, as added Pub. L. 111–5, div. A, title XIII, § 13301, Feb. 17, 2009, 123 Stat. 257.)