S.Amdt. 4592

SA 4592. Mr. BLUNT submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 3867 submitted by Mr. Reed and intended to be proposed to
the bill H.R. 4350, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2022
for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
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 A of title VII, add the following:

SEC. 704. IMPLEMENTATION OF INTEGRATED PRODUCT FOR MANAGEMENT
OF POPULATION HEALTH ACROSS MILITARY HEALTH
SYSTEM.

(a) In General.--The Secretary of Defense shall develop and
implement an integrated product for the management of
population health across the military health system, which
shall be designed--
(1) to serve as a repository for the health care,
demographic, and other relevant data of all covered
beneficiaries, including with respect to data on health care
services furnished to such beneficiaries through the
purchased care and direct care components of the TRICARE
program;
(2) to be compatible with the electronic health record
system maintained by the Secretary of Defense for members of
the Armed Forces;
(3) to enable the coordinated case management of covered
beneficiaries with respect to health care services furnished
to such beneficiaries at military medical treatment
facilities and at private sector facilities through health
care providers contracted by the Department of Defense;
(4) to enable the collection and stratification of data
from multiple sources to measure population health goals,
facilitate disease management programs of the Department,
improve patient education, and integrate wellness services
across the military health system; and
(5) to enable predictive modeling to improve health
outcomes for patients and to facilitate the identification
and correction of medical errors in the treatment of
patients, issues regarding the quality of health care
services provided, and gaps in health care coverage.
(b) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Covered beneficiary; tricare program.--The terms
``covered beneficiary'' and ``TRICARE program'' have the
meanings given such terms in section 1072 of title 10, United
States Code.
(2) Integrated product.--The term ``integrated product''
means an electronic system of systems (or solutions or
products) that provides for the integration and sharing of
data to meet the needs of an end user in a timely and cost
effective manner.
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