under this section for a period of at least 12 months. After carrying out such program for 12 months, the Secretary may terminate the program, continue the program, expand the program to include additional locations, or implement the use of portable medical records storage systems on a national basis. (e) Requirements of portable medical records storage system A medical records storage system described in this subsection is a physical device that meets the following requirements: (1) Capability to store not less than four gigabytes of electronic health records on a physical device, which is not larger than the dimensions of a credit card, issued to each veteran enrolled in the pilot program. (2) Capability to be used by substantially all electronic health records systems certified by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT on or before January 1, 2017. (3) Capability to limit access to electronic health records stored on each device to the patient and health care providers. (4) Capability for health care providers to securely access, annotate, and add electronic health records to the physical device, including in instances where the health care provider is not in possession of the physical storage device. (5) Requirement that all electronic health records transferred from a health care provider over the internet to the physical storage device be encrypted. (6) Requirement that the portable medical records system can operate without persistent storage of any electronic health records on the internet or within a cloud computing repository. (7) Capability to provide a replacement device containing an up-to-date electronic health record, if the original physical storage device has been removed from the owner’s possession or otherwise rendered inoperable. (f) Definitions In this section: (1) The term dimensions of a credit card means three and three-eighths inches in width, two and one-eighth inches in length, and five-one hundred twenty-eighth of one inch in depth. (2) The term electronic health records