Bill Text: HI SCR16 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Hawaii Health Care Project; Hawaii Health Information Exchange; Technology-Based Healthcare Information System

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-04-15 - Referred to HLT, FIN, referral sheet 54 [SCR16 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SCR16-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1006

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.C.R. No. 16

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Health and Technology and the Arts, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 16 entitled:

 

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE STATE OF HAWAII TO SUPPORT THE EFFORTS OF THE HAWAII HEALTH CARE PROJECT AND THE HAWAII HEALTH INFORMATION EXCHANGE TO IMPLEMENT AN EFFICIENT AND EFFECTIVE, INTEGRATED, TECHNOLOGY-BASED HEALTHCARE INFORMATION SYSTEM,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

 

     (1)  Request the State to support the efforts of the Hawaii Health Care Project and Hawaii Health Information Exchange to ensure that the integrated technology-based healthcare information system is developed with and maintained under a public-private partnership to include those with shared interests in providing data into and receiving data through the system;

 

     (2)  Encourage all state agencies that collect and maintain healthcare-related data and information to cooperate with the Hawaii Health Care Project and Hawaii Health Information Exchange's effort to develop and implement the technology-based healthcare information system;

 

     (3)  Request the Hawaii Health Care Project, in cooperation with the Hawaii Health Information Exchange, to propose a sustainability model that maintains the technology-based healthcare information system and provides for all entities that benefit from the system to fairly share in the financial responsibility to maintain that system and to submit the proposed model the Legislature; and

 

     (4)  Urge the State to maximize efforts at applying for and receiving federal funding for the development and improvement of technology-based healthcare information systems.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health, Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Health Information Exchange, Hawaii Pacific Health, and one individual.

 

     Your Committees find that a more coordinated and timely sharing of appropriate medical records exchanged in a secure manner will help prevent and manage obesity in Hawaii's population.  This measure supports an integrated information technology system that provides an efficient means to share clinical and other healthcare-related data.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Technology and the Arts that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 16, as amended herein, and recommend that it be referred to the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection, in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 16, S.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Technology and the Arts,

 

____________________________ GLENN WAKAI, Chair		____________________________ JOSH GREEN, Chair