This bill mandates the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the Health Resources and Services Administration, to develop and maintain a real-time data dashboard for graduate medical education residency training positions. This dashboard aims to significantly enhance health care workforce planning and distribution, with a specific focus on addressing physician shortages in medically underserved communities. Key components of the dashboard will include real-time information on residency applications, match rates, geographic distribution of applicants, and residency position fulfillment rates by specialty and region. Furthermore, the dashboard will track training program completion rates and graduate practice location patterns, providing an analysis of trends in physician placement in rural and medically underserved areas. The bill requires interagency collaboration, including with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Department of Veterans Affairs, and mandates data sharing agreements while ensuring strict adherence to data privacy and security regulations. The Secretary must also submit annual reports to Congress detailing the dashboard's implementation, key workforce trends, and recommendations for improving health care workforce planning.
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Timeline
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
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Health Care Workforce Real-Time Data Dashboard Act
USA119th CongressS-3038| Senate
| Updated: 10/23/2025
This bill mandates the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the Health Resources and Services Administration, to develop and maintain a real-time data dashboard for graduate medical education residency training positions. This dashboard aims to significantly enhance health care workforce planning and distribution, with a specific focus on addressing physician shortages in medically underserved communities. Key components of the dashboard will include real-time information on residency applications, match rates, geographic distribution of applicants, and residency position fulfillment rates by specialty and region. Furthermore, the dashboard will track training program completion rates and graduate practice location patterns, providing an analysis of trends in physician placement in rural and medically underserved areas. The bill requires interagency collaboration, including with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Department of Veterans Affairs, and mandates data sharing agreements while ensuring strict adherence to data privacy and security regulations. The Secretary must also submit annual reports to Congress detailing the dashboard's implementation, key workforce trends, and recommendations for improving health care workforce planning.