To require the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to jointly submit to Congress a report on the implementation of new or updated electronic health records in certain environments.

SA 1563. Mr. BLUMENTHAL submitted an amendment intended to be
proposed to amendment SA 1463 proposed by Mr. McCain to the bill H.R.
1735, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military
activities of the Department of Defense and for military construction,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle C of title VII, add the following:

SEC. 738. REPORT ON IMPLEMENTATION OF DATA SECURITY AND
TRANSMISSION STANDARDS FOR ELECTRONIC HEALTH
RECORDS.

(a) In General.--Not later than June 1, 2016, the Secretary
of Defense and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall
jointly submit to Congress a report on the standards for
security and transmission of data to be implemented by the
Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs
in deploying the new or updated, as the case may be,
electronic health record system of each such Department
(required to be deployed by each such Department under
section 713 of the National Defense Authorization Act for
Fiscal Year 2014 (Public Law 113-66; 10 U.S.C. 1071 note)) at
military installations and in field environments.
(b) Transmission of Data.--The report required by
subsection (a) shall include information on standards for
transmission of data between the Department of Defense and
the Department of Veterans Affairs and standards for
transmission of data between each such Department and private
sector entities.
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