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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 6424
January Session, 2021
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Referred to Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH
Introduced by:
(PH)
AN ACT REVISING DATA COLLECTION REQUIREM ENTS FOR
HEALTH CARE PROVIDER S CONNECTING TO THE STATE-WIDE
HEALTH INFORMATION E XCHANGE.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 17b-59e of the general statutes is repealed and the 1
following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2021): 2
(a) For purposes of this section: 3
(1) "Health care provider" means any individual, corporation, facility 4
or institution licensed by the state to provide health care services; and 5
(2) "Electronic health record system" means a computer-based 6
information system that is used to create, collect, store, manipulate, 7
share, exchange or make available electronic health records for the 8
purposes of the delivery of patient care. 9
(b) Not later than one year after commencement of the operation of 10
the State-wide Health Information Exchange, each hospital licensed 11
under chapter 368v and clinical laboratory licensed under section 19a-12 Raised Bill No. 6424
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30 shall maintain an electronic health record system capable of 13
connecting to and participating in the State-wide Health Information 14
Exchange and shall apply to begin the process of connecting to, and 15
participating in, the State-wide Health Information Exchange. 16
(c) Not later than two years after commencement of the operation of 17
the State-wide Health Information Exchange, (1) each health care 18
provider with an electronic health record system capable of connecting 19
to, and participating in, the State-wide Health Information Exchange 20
shall apply to begin the process of connecting to, and participating in, 21
the State-wide Health Information Exchange, and (2) each health care 22
provider without an electronic health record system capable of 23
connecting to, and participating in, the State-wide Health Information 24
Exchange shall be capable of sending and receiving secure messages 25
that comply with the Direct Project specifications published by the 26
federal Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information 27
Technology. 28
(d) Each health care provider with an electronic health record system 29
capable of connecting to, and participating in, the State-wide Health 30
Information Exchange shall, not later than the date by which such 31
hospital or health care provider is required to connect to the State-wide 32
Health Information Exchange, collect and include in its electronic health 33
record system self-reported patient demographic data including, but 34
not limited to, race, ethnicity, primary language, insurance status and 35
disability status. 36
(e) Each health care provider required to connect to the State-wide 37
Health Information Exchange pursuant to this section shall adhere to 38
the data collection standards promulgated by the U.S. Department of 39
Health and Human Services' Office of Minority Health, as amended 40
from time to time. 41
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
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Statement of Purpose:
To clarify and standardize race, ethnicity and language data collection
for health care providers required to connect to the State-wide Health
Information Exchange.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except
that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not
underlined.]