(a) Pilot program
The Director of the Defense Health Agency shall carry out a pilot program under which the Director provides for the use of blue-light dissipating displays by covered individuals in clinical and rehabilitative settings.
(b) Use of blue-light dissipating displays
The Director shall ensure that blue-light dissipating displays provided under the pilot program under subsection (a) are used to assist covered individuals with screen-mediated tasks associated with rehabilitation, patient education, assistive technology, and telehealth appointments.
(c) Selection of technology
In carrying out the pilot program under subsection (a), the Director shall select commercially available, stand-alone blue-light dissipating displays that do not require modifications to the electronic health record systems of the military health system.
(d) Locations
The Director shall select military medical treatment facilities at which to carry out the pilot program under subsection (a).
(e) Briefing
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director shall provide to the Committees on Armed Services of the House of Representatives and the Senate a briefing on the design of the pilot program under subsection (a), including identification of the military medical treatment facilities selected under subsection (d).
(f) Report
Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the House of Representatives and the Senate a report on the pilot program under subsection (a), including an evaluation of each of the following:
Whether the use of blue-light dissipating displays provided under the pilot program changed the time needed to complete screen-mediated tasks associated with rehabilitation, patient education, assistive technology, and telehealth appointments.
Whether such use improved the ability of covered individuals to read information relating to such tasks.
Whether such use improved the glare sensitivity and visual fatigue of covered individuals.
(g) Definitions
In this section:
The term blue-light dissipating display means a display technology that is blue-light-dissipating and uses a diffused light-output architecture, including with respect to employing optical-elastomer or diffused light-output nanomaterial light-management layers (or both).
The term covered individual means a covered beneficiary (as defined in section 1072 of title 10, United States Code) who is partially blind, legally blind, or otherwise visually impaired.