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21st Century Health Care for Heroes Act - Amends the Wounded Warrior Act to direct the Secretaries of Defenseand Veterans Affairs, in implementing electronic health record systems that provide for the full interoperability of personal health care information between the Department of Defense (DOD) and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), to ensure that: (1) a health data authoritative source is created within 180 days, (2) the ability of patients of both Departments to download their medical records is achieved within 365 days, (3) seamless integration of personal health care information between the Departments is achieved within 365 days, (4) standardization of health care data of the Departments is achieved within 365 days, (5) acceleration of the exchange of real-time data between the Departments is achieved within 365 days, (6) the upgrade of the graphical user interface to display the new standardized health care data of the Departments is achieved within 365 days, (7) incoming members of the Armed Forces and their dependents may elect to receive an electronic copy of their health care records beginning not later than October 1, 2014, and (8) current members of the Armed Forces and their dependents may elect to receive an electronic copy of their health care records beginning not later than October 1, 2015. Requires such Secretaries to study the feasibility of establishing a secure, remote, and network-accessible computer storage system (commonly referred to as cloud storage) to: (1) provide members of the Armed Forces and veterans the ability to upload their health care records, and (2) allow DOD and VA medical providers to access such records.

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Christopher Gibson (R)*,  John Barrow (D),  Joyce Beatty (D),  Kerry Bentivolio (R),  Ami Bera (D),  Sanford Bishop (D),  Earl Blumenauer (D),  Vern Buchanan (R),  Cheri Bustos (D),  Tony Cárdenas (D),  David Cicilline (D),  Mike Coffman (R),  Paul Cook (R),  Jim Cooper (D),  Steve Daines (R),  Rodney Davis (R),  John Delaney (D),  Elizabeth Esty (D),  Chaka Fattah (D),  Michael Fitzpatrick (R),  Tulsi Gabbard (D),  Joe Garcia (D),  Gene Green (D),  Tim Griffin (R),  Janice Hahn (D),  Richard Hanna (R),  Jared Huffman (D),  Lynn Jenkins (R),  Dave Joyce (R),  Bill Keating (D),  Derek Kilmer (D),  Ann Kirkpatrick (D),  Ann Kuster (D),  Daniel Lipinski (D),  David Loebsack (D),  Alan Lowenthal (D),  Daniel Maffei (D),  Sean Maloney (D),  Jim Matheson (D),  Patrick Meehan (R),  James Moran (D),  Mick Mulvaney (R),  Patrick Murphy (D),  Richard Nolan (D),  Beto O'Rourke (D),  William Owens (D),  Scott Peters (D),  Thomas Petri (R),  Tom Reed (R),  Reid Ribble (R),  E. Scott Rigell (R),  Raul Ruiz (D),  Brad Schneider (D),  Kurt Schrader (D),  Kyrsten Sinema (I),  G.T. Thompson (R),  David Valadao (R),  Peter Welch (D),  Frank Wolf (R), 

Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel. (on 08/29/2013)

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