HB 2423
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ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Fifty-sixth Legislature
First Regular Session
HB 2423: technical correction; public records
S/E: appropriation; healthcare; interoperability
Sponsor: Representative Gress, LD 4
Committee on Appropriations
Summary of the Strike-Everything Amendment to HB 2423
Overview
Modifies deadlines and standards for the Arizona Department of Administrative (ADOA)
Interoperability Software Technology Solution Competitive Grant Program (Grant Program).
History
Laws 2022, Chapter 314 requires ADOA to establish a three-year competitive Grant Program for
interoperability software technology solutions to support rural hospitals, health care providers and
urban trauma centers to further treatment care coordination with a focus on reducing public and
private health care costs and unnecessary transportation costs. The software must be made
available to rural hospitals, health care providers and urban trauma centers by enabling a
hospital's electronic medical records system to interface with other electronic medical records
systems and facilitate increased communication between hospital staff and providers that use
different or distinctive online platforms and information systems when treating patients. The
legislation required ADOA to award the first grant by December 31, 2022 (A.R.S. § 41-703.01).
Provisions
1. Requires ADOA to administer the competitive Grant Program for a single company that
licenses an interoperability software technology solution to support acute care for rural
hospitals, health care providers and trauma centers. (Sec. 1)
2. Prohibits the grant recipient from using a third-party vendor to comply with any of the Grant
Program requirements. (Sec. 1)
3. Extends the date for ADOA to award the grant from December 31, 2022, to December 31,
2023. (Sec. 1)
4. Specifies that the Grant Program must enable the implementation of a single licensed
interoperability software technology solution that is accessible to current and future providers
via mobile, native smartphone application. (Sec. 1)
5. Specifies that the software be made available to rural hospitals, health care providers and
trauma centers by enabling a hospital's electronic medical records system to interface with
interoperability technology, other electronic medical records systems and providers to
promote mobile connectivity and facilitate increased communication between hospital staff
and providers that use different or distinctive online and mobile platforms and information
systems when treating acute patients. (Sec. 1)
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6. Modifies the standards that ADOA must use to award the grant for an interoperability software
technology solution to include:
a) being capable of providing proactive alerts to health care providers on their smartphones
or a smart device; and
b) being mobile and usable on multiple electronic devices. (Sec. 1)
7. Adds that the grant recipient must demonstrate that its interoperability software technology
solution meets all statutory requirements at least 30 days before applying. (Sec. 1)
8. Requires the interoperability software technology solution license to be renewed on an annual
basis. (Sec. 1)
9. Defines mobile and native. (Sec. 1)
10. Removes the delayed repeal date for the Grant Program. (Sec. 2)
11. Appropriates a onetime sum of $12,000,000 from the state General Fund in FY 2024 to ADOA
for an interoperability software technology grant and exempts the appropriation from lapsing.
(Sec. 3)
12. Makes technical and conforming changes. (Sec. 1)