; (3) ensure that future patient record systems follow Federal standards promulgated under the HITECH Act for the collection and meaningful use of electronic health data on race, ethnicity, primary language, sexual orientation, disability status, gender identity, and socioeconomic status; (4) improve health and health care data collection and analysis for more population groups if such groups can be aggregated into the minimum race and ethnicity categories, including exploring the feasibility of enhancing collection efforts in States, counties, and municipalities for racial and ethnic groups that comprise a significant proportion of the population of the State, county, or municipality; (5) provide researchers with greater access to racial, ethnic, primary language, sexual orientation, disability status, gender identity, and socioeconomic status data, subject to privacy and confidentiality regulations; and (6) safeguard and prevent the misuse of data collected under subsection (a). (d) Compliance with Standards Data collected under subsection (a) shall be obtained, maintained, and presented (including for reporting purposes) in accordance with standards developed under section 3101. (e) Analysis of health disparity data The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and in coordination with the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the Director of the National Center for Health Statistics, and the Director of the National Institutes of Health, shall provide technical assistance to agencies of the Department of Health and Human Services in meeting Federal standards for health disparity data collection and for analysis of racial, ethnic, and other disparities in health and health care in public programs by— (1) identifying appropriate quality assurance mechanisms to monitor for health disparities; (2) specifying the clinical, diagnostic, or therapeutic measures which should be monitored