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Organ Donation Referral Improvement Act
To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, to conduct a study on existing efforts of hospitals with respect to electronic automated referrals for purposes of organ donation, and for other purposes.
Summary
This bill directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct a study within one year on hospitals' use of electronic automated referrals for organ donation. The study must examine the benefits and efficiency gains from using automated systems that identify potential organ donors through electronic health records and clinical criteria, including impacts on staff time, donation volumes, and timeliness of donor identification. The study must review peer-reviewed clinical literature, assess information technology security practices, and identify best practices for these systems. The Secretary must also develop recommendations to promote the use of electronic automated referrals and identify actions needed to establish the use of these systems nationwide. A report on the study findings must be submitted to four Congressional committees within one year of enactment.
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Sponsor (1)
14 cosponsors
- Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large] (D-DC)
- Rep. Balderson, Troy [R-OH-12] (R-OH)
- Rep. Costa, Jim [D-CA-21] (D-CA)
- Rep. Crenshaw, Dan [R-TX-2] (R-TX)
- Rep. Griffith, H. Morgan [R-VA-9] (R-VA)
- Rep. Latta, Robert E. [R-OH-5] (R-OH)
- Rep. McClellan, Jennifer L. [D-VA-4] (D-VA)
- Rep. Miller-Meeks, Mariannette [R-IA-1] (R-IA)
- Rep. Mullin, Kevin [D-CA-15] (D-CA)
- Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-12] (D-NY)
- Rep. Pfluger, August [R-TX-11] (R-TX)
- Rep. Tokuda, Jill N. [D-HI-2] (D-HI)
- Rep. Veasey, Marc A. [D-TX-33] (D-TX)
- Rep. Vindman, Eugene Simon [D-VA-7] (D-VA)
Actions (2)
- Jan 9, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. · house
- Jan 9, 2025 Introduced in House
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 9, 2025
Mr. Wittman (for himself, Ms. McClellan, Mrs. Miller-Meeks, and Mr. Costa) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce
A BILL
To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, to conduct a study on existing efforts of hospitals with respect to electronic automated referrals for purposes of organ donation, and for other purposes.
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 “Organ Donation Referral Improvement Act”.
SEC. 2. STUDYING ELECTRONIC AUTOMATED REFERRAL FOR ORGAN DONATIONS.
(a) In General.—Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (referred to in this Act as the “Secretary”), shall conduct and complete a study on existing efforts of hospitals with respect to electronic automated referrals for purposes of organ donation.
(b) Study Components.—The study conducted under subsection (a) shall—
(1) identify savings in staff time, variation in timeliness to determine eligibility for organ donation, as well as potential improvement over human interaction for the identification of potential organ donors, if any, attained through the use of electronic automated referrals;
(2) identify benefits, if any, in identifying potential organ donors through the use of electronic medical records and standardized clinical criteria;
(3) review the impact of such electronic automated referrals, without the need for manual reporting, on donation volumes;
(4) assess published peer-reviewed clinical literature on such electronic automated referrals;
(5) review best practices for using such electronic automated referrals;
(6) review information technology practices to ensure the secure transmission of information for purposes of such referrals;
(7) develop recommendations to promote the use of such electronic automated referrals; and
(8) identify what actions are needed to establish the use of such electronic automated referrals nationwide.
(c) Report.—Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Finance and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate a report on the results of the study conducted under subsection (a).
(d) Electronic Automated Referral Defined.—In this section, the term “electronic automated referral” means an electronic system that identifies potential deceased organ donors via clinical criteria in a patient’s electronic health record and automatically refers such patients to the hospital’s collaborating organ procurement organization. <all>
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