119-hr330

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 330 Introduced in House

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 330

 To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through 
the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, to conduct a study 
 on existing efforts of hospitals with respect to electronic automated 
 referrals for purposes of organ donation, and for other purposes.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 January 9, 2025

 Mr. Wittman (for himself, Ms. McClellan, Mrs. Miller-Meeks, and Mr. 
 Costa) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on Energy and Commerce

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 A BILL

 To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through 
the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, to conduct a study 
 on existing efforts of hospitals with respect to electronic automated 
 referrals for purposes of organ donation, and for other purposes.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

 This Act may be cited as the ``Organ Donation Referral Improvement 
Act''.

SEC. 2. STUDYING ELECTRONIC AUTOMATED REFERRAL FOR ORGAN DONATIONS.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through 
the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (referred to in 
this Act as the ``Secretary''), shall conduct and complete a study on 
existing efforts of hospitals with respect to electronic automated 
referrals for purposes of organ donation.

    (b) Study Components.--The study conducted under subsection

    (a) shall--

    (1) identify savings in staff time, variation in timeliness 
 to determine eligibility for organ donation, as well as 
 potential improvement over human interaction for the 
 identification of potential organ donors, if any, attained 
 through the use of electronic automated referrals;

    (2) identify benefits, if any, in identifying potential 
 organ donors through the use of electronic medical records and 
 standardized clinical criteria;

    (3) review the impact of such electronic automated 
 referrals, without the need for manual reporting, on donation 
 volumes;

    (4) assess published peer-reviewed clinical literature on 
 such electronic automated referrals;

    (5) review best practices for using such electronic 
 automated referrals;

    (6) review information technology practices to ensure the 
 secure transmission of information for purposes of such 
 referrals;

    (7) develop recommendations to promote the use of such 
 electronic automated referrals; and

    (8) identify what actions are needed to establish the use 
 of such electronic automated referrals nationwide.
            (c) Report.--Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of 
this Act, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Energy and 
Commerce and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of 
Representatives and the Committee on Finance and the Committee on 
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate a report on the 
results of the study conducted under subsection

    (a) .
            (d) Electronic Automated Referral Defined.--In this section, the 
term ``electronic automated referral'' means an electronic system that 
identifies potential deceased organ donors via clinical criteria in a 
patient's electronic health record and automatically refers such 
patients to the hospital's collaborating organ procurement 
organization.
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