Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 4245) to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to submit to Congress certain documents relating to the Electronic Health Record Modernization Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs. The Clerk read the title of the bill. The text of the bill is as follows: H.R. 4245 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 ``Veterans' Electronic Health Record Modernization Oversight Act of 2017''. SEC. 2. OVERSIGHT OF ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD MODERNIZATION PROGRAM. (a) Program Documents.--Not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees the following documents concerning the Electronic Health Record Modernization Program: (1) Integrated Master Plan. (2) Integrated Master Schedule. (3) Program Management Plan. (4) Annual and lifecycle cost estimates, including, at a minimum, cost elements relating to-- (A) Federal Government labor; (B) contractor labor; (C) hardware; (D) software; and (E) testing and evaluation. (5) Cost baseline. (6) Risk Management Plan. (7) Health IT Strategic Architecture Plan. (8) Transition Plan for implementing updated architecture. (9) Data Migration Plan. (10) System and Data Security Plan. (11) Application Implementation Plan. (12) System Design Documents.…
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