Health Services Research, Health Statistics, and Health Care Technology Act

(Measure passed House, amended, roll call #826 (306-77))

Health Services Research, Health Statistics, and Health Care Technology Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to extend authorizations of appropriations through fiscal year 1981 for health service research, evaluation, and demonstration activities, and health statistical activities.

Requires the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, acting through the National Center for Health Statistics, to establish standardized means for the collection of health information and statistics under laws administered by the Secretary.

Establishes the Cooperative Health Statistical System, for the purpose of producing comparable and uniform health information and statistics.

Requires the Secretary, acting through the Center, to: (1) coordinate the activities of Federal agencies in the design and implementation of the System; and (2) make grants to State and local health agencies to assist them in meeting the cost of data collection carried out under the System.

Requires the Secretary, acting through the Center, to establish guidelines for the collection, compilation, analysis, publication, and distribution of statistics and information necessary for determining the effects and conditions of employment and indoor and outdoor environmental conditions on the public health.

Requires the Secretary and the National Academy of Sciences to conduct an ongoing study of the present and projected future health costs of pollution and environmental conditions resulting from human activity.

Requires the Directors of the National Center for Health Statistics and the Center for Disease Control to serve as members of the Task Force on Environmental Cancer and Heart and Lung Disease.

Requires the Task Force to conduct a study to identify the need for and recommend guidelines for the collection, compilation, analysis, publication, and distribution of statistics and information necessary for determining: (1) the extent to which conditions of employment and indoor and outdoor environmental conditions may cause cancer or heart or lung diseases; and (2) the other effects on the public health which may reasonably be anticipated to result from such conditions.

Establishes in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare the National Center for Health Care Technology.

Requires the Secretary, acting through the Center, to undertake and support comprehensive assessments of health care technology.

Requires the Secretary, acting through the Center, to undertake and support by grant or contract, research in, and demonstrations and evaluations of: (1) the factors that affect the use of health care technologies in the United States; and (2) methods for disseminating information on health care technologies to health professionals.

Establishes the Health Care Technology Advisory Committee to advise the Secretary and the Director of the Center with respect to the performance of the National Center for Health Care Technology.

Requires the United States Commmttee on Vital and Health Statistics to conduct a study of the issues respecting and the recommendations for establishing a Federal system: (1) to facilitate studies of the effects of hazardous substances on humans; and (2) to locate individuals who have been or may have been exposed to hazardous substances to determine the effect on their health of such exposure and to assist them in obtaining appropriate medical care and treatment.

Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the National Eye Institute, to carry out a program of grants for vision research facilities.

Authorizes the Secretary to waive the requirements for capitation grants for dental schools if the Secretary determines that compliance with such requirements will prevent a school from maintaining its accreditation.

Amends the Clean Air Act to provide that if the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency promulgates a design or operational standard with respect to air pollutants from buildings, such design or operational standard shall be treated as establishing allowable emission limitations.