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HR 1579 110th Congress House Armed Forces and National Security Armed forces reserves Case management Families Family services Government Operations and Politics Health Health information systems Military dependents Military hospitals Military medicine Military personnel National Guard Ombudsman War casualties

Wounded Warriors Joint Health Care Patient Tracking Act

Introduced: March 20, 2007 Introduced by: Buchanan, Vern Republican · Florida See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
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Apr 3, 2007
Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
Mar 20, 2007
Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
Mar 20, 2007
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Wounded Warriors Joint Health Care Patient Tracking Act - Directs the surgeons general of the military departments to develop a joint soldier tracking system (System) for medical holdover patients. Requires the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs to have access to the system to monitor trends and problems.

Requires the system to allow each medical holdover patient, each family member of such patient, each commanding officer of a military installation retaining such patients, each patient navigator, and ombudsman office personnel, at all times, to be able to locate and understand exactly where a patient is in the medical holdover process. Requires that the system be updated daily.

What's happening now April 3, 2007

Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.

 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 1
All 1 Republican 1