Sec. 722. Office of Primary Care and Prevention Research
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Title IV of the Public Health Service Act is amended— by redesignating parts G through I as parts H through J, respectively; and by inserting after part F the following new part: There is established within the Office of the Director of NIH an office to be known as the Office of Primary Care and Prevention Research (in this part referred to as the Office ). The Office shall be headed by a director, who shall be appointed by the Director of NIH. The Director of the Office shall— identify projects of research on primary care and prevention, for children as well as adults, that should be conducted or supported by the national research institutes, with particular emphasis on— clinical patient care, with special emphasis on pediatric clinical care and diagnosis; diagnostic effectiveness; primary care education; health and family planning services; medical effectiveness outcomes of primary care procedures and interventions; and the use of multidisciplinary teams of health care practitioners; identify multidisciplinary research related to primary care and prevention that should be so conducted; promote coordination and collaboration among entities conducting research identified under any of paragraphs
(1)and (2); encourage the conduct of such research by entities receiving funds from the national research institutes; recommend an agenda for conducting and supporting such research; promote the sufficient allocation of the resources of the national research institutes for conducting and supporting such research; and prepare the report required under section 486G. For purposes of this part, the term primary care and prevention research means research on improvement of the practice of family medicine, general internal medicine, and general pediatrics, and includes research relating to— obstetrics and gynecology, dentistry, or mental health or substance abuse treatment when provided by a primary care physician or other primary care practitioner; and primary care provided by multidisciplinary teams. The Director of NIH, in consultation with the Director of the Office, shall establish a data system for the collection, storage, analysis, retrieval, and dissemination of information regarding primary care and prevention research that is conducted or supported by the national research institutes. Information from the data system shall be available through information systems available to health care professionals and providers, researchers, and members of the public. The Director of NIH, in consultation with the Director of the Office and with the National Library of Medicine, shall establish, maintain, and operate a program to provide, and encourage the use of, information on research and prevention activities of the national research institutes that relate to primary care and prevention research. With respect to primary care and prevention research, the Director of the Office shall, not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this part, and biennially thereafter, prepare a report— describing and evaluating the progress made during the preceding 2 fiscal years in research and treatment conducted or supported by the National Institutes of Health; summarizing and analyzing expenditures made by the agencies of such Institutes (and by such Office) during the preceding 2 fiscal years; and making such recommendations for legislative and administrative initiatives as the Director of the Office determines to be appropriate. The Director of the Office shall submit each report prepared under subsection
(a)to the Director of NIH for inclusion in the report submitted to the President and the Congress under section 403. For the Office of Primary Care and Prevention Research, there are authorized to be appropriated $150,000,000 for fiscal year 2014, $180,000,000 for fiscal year 2015, and $216,000,000 for fiscal year 2016. . Section 402(b) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 282(b)) is amended— in paragraph (23), by striking and after the semicolon at the end; in paragraph (24), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and ; and by inserting after paragraph
(24)the following new paragraph: after consultation with the Director of the Office of Primary Care and Prevention Research, shall ensure that resources of the National Institutes of Health are sufficiently allocated for projects on primary care and prevention research that are identified under section 486E(b). .
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