Patient Safety Improvement Act of 2002

Summary

Patient Safety Improvement Act of 2002 - Amends title XI of the Social Security Act to add a new part D (Patient Safety Improvements) to provide for voluntary reporting to the Secretary of Health and Human Services of patient safety data. Prescribes confidentiality and peer review protections for such data. Directs the Secretary, in order to reduce medical errors and improve patient safety and health care quality, to establish one or more mechanisms to analyze aggregate non-identifiable patients safety data and system changes adopted by patient safety organizations and health care providers. Requires the Secretary to develop voluntary, national standards that promote interoperability of health care information technology systems across all health care settings. Directs the Secretary to appoint an advisory board, the Medical Information Technology Advisory Board, to report to Congress and the Secretary on: (1) the best current practices in medical information technology; (2) methods of implementing health care information technology interoperability standardization and records security; and (3) a recommendation for a common lexicon for computer technology.

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• Reported in House (text)

  Reported in House · EN · 11 October 2002

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• Reported in House (PDF)

  Reported in House · EN · 11 October 2002

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• Reported to House amended, Part I

  summary · EN · 1 October 2002

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• Introduced in House (text)

  Introduced in House · EN · 6 June 2002

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• Introduced in House (PDF)

  Introduced in House · EN · 6 June 2002

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 6 June 2002

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