Sec. 5. Survivorship transition tools
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The head of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, in collaboration with Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, shall— evaluate existing models for survivorship care plans, as they relate to both adults and children, through engagement with professional societies, payors, patient advocacy organizations, community-based organizations, electronic health record vendors, and other stakeholders; evaluate other existing tools for developing survivorship care plans, such as— survivorship guidelines of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network and the American Society of Clinical Oncology; or tools such as Passport for Care; collaborate with the Office for Civil Rights of the Department of Health and Human Services to evaluate the privacy and security implications of— consolidating treatment history and survivorship guidelines into a personalized survivorship care plan, as described in paragraph (4); and patient use of computer or mobile phone-based application programs described in paragraph (4)(B); and taking into consideration the results of evaluation under paragraphs
(1)and (2)— not later than 12 months after the date of enactment of this Act, publish information resources for cancer patients and providers on strategies for consolidating treatment history and survivorship guidelines into a personalized survivorship care plan to guide survivorship monitoring and follow-up care; and include in such information resources recommendations about possible patient use of application programs ( apps ) to develop personalized survivorship care plans. In this section, the term electronic health record means an electronic record of health-related information on an individual that is created, gathered, managed, and consulted by authorized health care clinicians and staff.