42 U.S.C. § 286d | National Information Center

(a)

Establishment

There is established within the Library an entity to be known as the National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (in this section referred to as the “Center”).

(b)

Purpose

The purpose of the Center is the collection, storage, analysis, retrieval, and dissemination of information on health services research, clinical practice guidelines, and on health care technology, including the assessment of such technology. Such purpose includes developing and maintaining data bases and developing and implementing methods of carrying out such purpose.

(c)

Electronic, convenient format; criteria for inclusion

The Director of the Center shall ensure that information under subsection (b) concerning clinical practice guidelines is collected and maintained electronically and in a convenient format. Such Director shall develop and publish criteria for the inclusion of practice guidelines and technology assessments in the information center database.

(d)

Coordination with Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

The Secretary, acting through the Center, shall coordinate the activities carried out under this section through the Center with related activities of the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

July 1, 1944, ch. 373 Pub. L. 103–43, title XIV, § 1421June 10, 1993107 Stat. 171 Pub. L. 106–129, § 2(b)(2)Dec. 6, 1999113 Stat. 1670 (, title IV, § 478A, as added , , ; amended , , .)

Editorial Notes

Amendments

Pub. L. 106–1291999—Subsec. (d). substituted “Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality” for “Administrator for Health Care Policy and Research”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Construction

Pub. L. 103–43, § 1422(b)June 10, 1993107 Stat. 172

section 3 of Public Law 102–410106 Stat. 2094 section 299a–1 of this title section 299a–1 of this title 42 U.S.C. 299a–2 Public Law 102–410Oct. 13, 199242 U.S.C. 286d“The amendments made by () [amending ], by section 1421 of this Act [enacting this section], and by subsection (a) of this section [amending ] may not be construed as terminating the information center on health care technologies and health care technology assessment established under section 904 of the Public Health Service Act [], as in effect on the day before the date of the enactment of []. Such center shall be considered to be the center established in section 478A of the Public Health Service Act [], as added by section 1421 of this Act, and shall be subject to the provisions of such section 478A.”

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