; outreach and adoption of Health IT in such communities (a) National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (1) In general The National Coordinator for Health Information Technology shall conduct an evaluation of the level of use and accessibility of electronic health records in racial and ethnic minority communities focusing on whether patients in those communities have providers with electronic health records, stratified by providers participating in Medicare and Medicaid programs, and whether such providers have received EHR incentive payments under the HITECH Act, and by providers participating in the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) under the Quality Payment Program (QPP) established by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA). (2) Content In conducting the evaluation under paragraph (1), the National Coordinator shall publish the results of a study regarding the 100,000 providers recruited by the Regional Extension Center established under section 3012 of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 300jj–32 ), including the race and ethnicity of such providers and the populations served by such providers, with the populations stratified by providers participating in Medicare and Medicaid programs, and whether such providers have received EHR incentive payments under the HITECH Act, and by providers participating in the MIPS. (b) National center for health statistics As soon as practicable after the date of enactment of this Act, the Director of the National Center for Health Statistics shall provide to Congress a more detailed analysis of the data presented in NCHS Data Brief No. 236, Adoption of Certified Electronic Health Record Systems and Electronic Information Sharing in Physician Offices: United States, 2013 and 2014 the Data Brief 79. (c) Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (1) In general As part of the process of collecting information, with respect to a provider, at registration and attestation for purposes of the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health