Health Care Workforce Real-Time Data Dashboard Act

Key Points

• The bill creates a new online dashboard to track medical residency positions in real time. It would show how many people apply to programs, where they come from, and how many actually get hired.
• The goal is to help the government see where there are not enough doctors, especially in rural towns and poor neighborhoods. By tracking where new doctors train and where they end up working, officials can better plan how to fix shortages.
• The dashboard will collect data on how many students finish their training and whether they stay in the areas that need them most. It will also look at which medical specialties, like family medicine or surgery, are seeing the most vacancies.
• To protect privacy, the system will not use names or personal details. Instead, it will use group data to show trends without revealing who the individual doctors or students are.
• The Department of Health and Human Services will work with the VA and Medicare to share information. The bill asks for 1.5 million dollars to get the system started in 2026.

Impact Analysis

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