Sec. 771. Authority to conduct pilot program relating to monitoring of blast overpressure exposure
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The Director of the Defense Health Agency may conduct, as part of the initiative of the Department of Defense known as the Warfighter Brain Initiative (or any successor initiative), a pilot program under which the Director shall monitor blast overpressure exposure through the use of commercially available, off-the-shelf, wearable sensors, and document and evaluate data collected as a result of such monitoring. Monitoring activities under a pilot program conducted pursuant to subsection
(a)shall be carried out in each training environment that the Director determines poses a risk for blast overpressure exposure. If the Director conducts a pilot program pursuant to subsection (a), the Director shall— ensure that any data collected pursuant to such pilot program that is related to the health effects of the blast overpressure exposure of a member of the Armed Forces who participated in the pilot program is documented and maintained by the Secretary of Defense in an electronic health record for the member; and to the extent practicable, and in accordance with applicable provisions of law relating to data privacy, make data collected pursuant to such pilot program available to other academic and medical researchers for the purpose of informing future research and treatment options.