S.Amdt. 129

SA 129. Mr. CARPER (for himself, Mr. Voinovich, and Mr. Johnson)
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 98
proposed by Mr. Inouye (for himself and Mr. Baucus) to the bill H.R. 1,
making supplemental appropriations for job preservation and creation,
infrastructure investment, energy efficiency and science, assistance to
the unemployed, and State and local fiscal stabilization, for fiscal
year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes; which was
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

On page 276, strike lines 15 through 24, and insert the
following:
(E) Resource requirements.--The National Coordinator shall
estimate and publish resources required annually to reach the
goal of utilization of an electronic health record for each
person in the United States by 2014, including--
(i) the required level of Federal funding;
(ii) expectations for regional, State, and private
investment;
(iii) the expected contributions by volunteers to
activities for the utilization of such records; and
(iv) the resources needed to establish or expand education
programs in medical and health informatics and health
information management to train health care and information
technology students and provide a health information
technology workforce sufficient to ensure the rapid and
effective deployment and utilization of health information
technologies.
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