HR 8137
116th Congress
House
Health
Computers and information technology
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Health information and medical records
Accurate Reporting of Smoking Variants Act of 2020
Introduced: August 28, 2020
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Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
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To President
Became law
Aug 28, 2020
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Aug 28, 2020
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Accurate Reporting of Smoking Variants Act of 2020
This bill requires the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology to include, in the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan, relevant strategies to capture in electronic health records an individual's use of electronic cigarettes, vaping devices, or other smoking variants in the same manner as the use of traditional tobacco products is captured in such records.
Currently, the collection of information about a patient's smoking status with respect to cigarettes or other traditional tobacco products is one of the measures used to determine meaningful use of electronic health records by health care providers.
What's happening now
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Committees of jurisdiction
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