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 PUBLIC LAW 106-398 —APPENDIX 114 STAT. 1654A-191 SEC. 732. TELERADIOLOGY DEMONSTRATION PROJECT. (a) AUTHORITY TO CONDUCT PROJECT. — (1) The Secretary of Defense may conduct a demonstration project for the purposes of increasing efficiency of operations with respect to teleradiology at mihtary medical treatment facihties, supporting remote cUnics, and increasing coordination with respect to teleradiology between such facilities and clinics. Under the project, a military medical treatment facility and each clinic supported by such facility shall be linked by a digital radiology network through which digital radiology X-rays may be sent electronically from clinics to the military medical treatment facility. (2) The demonstration project may be conducted at several multispecialty tertiary-care military medical treatment facilities affiliated with a university medical school. One of such facilities shall be supported by at least 5 geographically dispersed remote clinics of the Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, and clinics of the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Coast Guard. Another of such facilities shall be in an underserved rural geographic region served under established telemedicine contracts between the Department of Defense, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and a local university. (b) DURATION OF PROJECT. — The Secretary shall conduct the project during the 2-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act. SEC. 733. HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM. (a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary of Defense shall carry out a demonstration program on health care management to explore opportunities for improving the planning, programming, budgeting systems, and management of the Department of Defense health care system. (b) TEST MODELS. —Under the demonstration program, the Secretary shall test the use of the following planning and management models: (1) A health care simulation model for studying alternative delivery policies, processes, organizations, and technologies. (2) A health care simulation model for studying long term disease management. (c) DEMONSTRATION SITES. —The Secretary shall test each model separately at one or more sites. (d) PERIOD FOR PROGRAM.— The demonstration program shall begin not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act and shall terminate on December 31, 2001. (e) REPORTS.— The Secretary of Defense shall submit a report on the demonstration program to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives not later than March 15, 2002. The report shall include the Secretary's assessment of the value of incorporating the use of the tested planning and management models throughout the planning, programming, budgeting systems, and management of the Department of Defense health care system. (f) FUNDING.— Of the amount authorized to be appropriated under section 301(22),' $6,000,000 shall be available for the demonstration program under this section.

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