Secretary, in cooperation with health care providers, State, local, Tribal, and territorial public health officials, and relevant Federal agencies (including the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and the National Institute of Standards and Technology), shall, as necessary, adopt technical and reporting stand- ards, including standards for interoperability as defined by section 3000, for networks under paragraph (1) and update such standards as necessary. Such standards shall be made available on the internet website of the Depart- ment of Health and Human Services, in a manner that does not compromise national security. 

‘‘(B) DEFERENCE TO STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIONS.—In adopting and implementing standards under this subsection and subsection (c), the Secretary shall give deference to standards published by standards development organizations and voluntary consensus-based standards entities.’’; 

(4) in subsection (c)— 

(A) in paragraph (1)— 

(i) by striking ‘‘Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act of 2013, the Sec- retary’’ and inserting ‘‘The Secretary’’; 

(ii) by inserting ‘‘, and improve as applicable and appropriate,’’ after ‘‘shall establish’’; 

(iii) by striking ‘‘of rapid’’ and inserting ‘‘of, rapid’’; and 

(iv) by striking ‘‘such connectivity’’ and inserting ‘‘such interoperability’’; 

(B) by amending paragraph (2) to read as follows: ‘‘(2) COORDINATION AND CONSULTATION.—In establishing and improving the network under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall— 

‘‘(A) facilitate coordination among agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services that provide, or have the potential to provide, information and data to, and analyses for, the situational awareness and bio- surveillance network under paragraph (1), including coordination among relevant agencies related to health care services, the facilitation of health information exchange (including the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology), and public health emergency preparedness and response; and 

‘‘(B) consult with the Secretary of Agriculture, the Sec- retary of Commerce (and the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology), the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and the heads of other Federal agen- cies, as the Secretary determines appropriate.’’; 

(C) in paragraph (3)— 

(i) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) through (E) as clauses (i) through (v), respectively, and adjusting the margins accordingly; 

(ii) in clause (iv), as so redesignated— 

(I) by inserting ‘‘immunization information systems,’’ after ‘‘poison control,’’; and 

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