Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to develop and carry out demonstration and evaluation projects to determine whether the use of computer-based medical information patient care systems by hospitals and skilled nursing facilities would enable such providers to manage their facilities and personnel more efficiently. Provides that grants, payments under contracts, and other expenditures made for demonstration and evaluation projects under this Act shall be made in appropriate part from the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund and from funds appropriated under Title V (Maternal and Child Health and Crippled Children's Services) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
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