HB2345 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
HB2345

Introduced 2/16/2005, by Rep. Julie Hamos - Elizabeth Coulson

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

New Act

Creates the Electronic Medical Records Taskforce Act. Establishes the Electronic Medical Records Taskforce to create a plan for the development and utilization of electronic medical records (EMR) in the State in order to improve the quality of patient care, increase the efficiency of medical practice, improve safety, and reduce medical errors. Sets forth certain elements that the plan shall include. Effective immediately.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning regulation.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Electronic Medical Records Taskforce Act.

Section 5. Electronic Medical Records Taskforce established. There is hereby created the Electronic Medical Records Taskforce, hereinafter referred to as the EMR Taskforce. The EMR Taskforce shall be convened by the Department of Public Health, in coordination with the Department of Public Aid.

Section 10. Taskforce duties; membership.

(a) The EMR Taskforce shall create a plan for the development and utilization of electronic medical records (EMR) in the State in order to improve the quality of patient care, increase the efficiency of medical practice, improve safety, and reduce medical errors. The EMR plan shall provide policy guidance for application for federal, State, or private grants to phase in utilization of EMR by health care providers.

(b) The Taskforce shall include representatives of physicians, hospitals, pharmacies and long-term care facilities, academic medical centers, payors, patients and consumers, and information technology providers.

Section 15. EMR plan. The EMR plan shall include, but not be limited to, a consideration of all of the following:

(1) key components of and standards for comprehensive EMR systems for recording, storing, analyzing and accessing patient medical information, assisting with medical decision-making and quality assurance, and providing for online health care;

(2) consistent data elements, definitions, and formats that should be incorporated in EMR systems;

(3) analysis of costs and benefits in implementing EMR by various types and sizes of health care providers;

(4) survey of equipment, technical assistance, and resources that would be necessary to assist smaller health care providers with EMR implementation and utilization;

(5) standards, technology platforms, and issues related to patient access to their individual medical and health data;

(6) a potential phase-in plan for implementing EMR by health care providers throughout Illinois; and

(7) patient privacy, security, and compliance with applicable rules set forth in the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA).

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.