| 1 | 1 | | 1.1 A bill for an act |
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| 2 | 2 | | 1.2 relating to health care; requiring the Emergency Medical Services Regulatory |
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| 3 | 3 | | 1.3 Board to implement a communications and patient logistics platform; authorizing |
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| 4 | 4 | | 1.4 grants; requiring annual reports; appropriating money; proposing coding for new |
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| 5 | 5 | | 1.5 law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 144E. |
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| 6 | 6 | | 1.6BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: |
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| 7 | 7 | | 1.7 Section 1. [144E.122] MULTIJURISDICTION COMMUNICATIONS AND PATIENT |
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| 8 | 8 | | 1.8LOGISTICS PLATFORM. |
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| 9 | 9 | | 1.9 Subdivision 1.Implementation, maintenance, and use of platform.The board must |
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| 10 | 10 | | 1.10purchase, implement, and maintain a secure, multijurisdiction communications and patient |
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| 11 | 11 | | 1.11logistics platform that is capable of providing patient tracking, facilitating the provision of |
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| 12 | 12 | | 1.12telehealth services, providing information necessary for appropriate destination selection |
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| 13 | 13 | | 1.13by ambulance service personnel, and collecting information needed to support additional |
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| 14 | 14 | | 1.14developments in time-sensitive systems of care. The platform must be available for use by |
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| 15 | 15 | | 1.15entities that include but are not limited to ambulance services licensed under this chapter, |
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| 16 | 16 | | 1.16regional emergency medical services systems designated under section 144E.50, health care |
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| 17 | 17 | | 1.17providers involved with emergency medical services integration and care, and medical |
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| 18 | 18 | | 1.18resource communication centers. The platform must contain functionalities that are scalable |
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| 19 | 19 | | 1.19to address routine, daily operations; pandemic response; mass casualty incidents; special |
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| 20 | 20 | | 1.20events; and natural disasters. |
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| 21 | 21 | | 1.21 Subd. 2.Grants.The board may distribute grants on an annual basis to regional |
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| 22 | 22 | | 1.22emergency medical services systems designated under section 144E.50 to be used to support |
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| 23 | 23 | | 1.23implementation of the platform statewide. |
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| 24 | 24 | | 1Section 1. |
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| 25 | 25 | | REVISOR AGW/CH 23-0141301/12/23 |
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| 26 | 26 | | State of Minnesota |
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| 27 | 27 | | This Document can be made available |
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| 28 | 28 | | in alternative formats upon request |
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| 29 | 29 | | HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 30 | 30 | | H. F. No. 553 |
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| 31 | 31 | | NINETY-THIRD SESSION |
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| 32 | 32 | | Authored by Brand and Schomacker01/19/2023 |
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| 33 | 33 | | The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Health Finance and Policy 2.1 Subd. 3.Annual report.By February 1, 2025, and each February 1 thereafter, the board |
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| 34 | 34 | | 2.2must submit a report to the legislative committees with jurisdiction over the board on the |
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| 35 | 35 | | 2.3communications and patient logistics platform implemented according to this section. |
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| 36 | 36 | | 2.4 Sec. 2. MULTIJURISDICTION COMMUNICA TIONS AND PATIENT LOGISTICS |
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| 37 | 37 | | 2.5PLATFORM. |
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| 38 | 38 | | 2.6 Subdivision 1.Purchase and implementation strategy.By January 1, 2024, the |
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| 39 | 39 | | 2.7Emergency Medical Services Regulatory Board must purchase and develop an |
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| 40 | 40 | | 2.8implementation strategy for a multijurisdiction communications and patient logistics platform |
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| 41 | 41 | | 2.9that meets the requirements of Minnesota Statutes, section 144E.122. |
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| 42 | 42 | | 2.10 Subd. 2.Evaluation.The board must establish a process to evaluate and implement the |
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| 43 | 43 | | 2.11most practicable platform available that will interact with all levels of licensed ambulance |
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| 44 | 44 | | 2.12services in the state. When evaluating platforms for purchase, the board must consider the |
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| 45 | 45 | | 2.13ability of the platform to: |
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| 46 | 46 | | 2.14 (1) assist with migrating surges of patients to acute care facilities; |
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| 47 | 47 | | 2.15 (2) assist with responding to overcrowding at acute care facilities, including situations |
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| 48 | 48 | | 2.16in which patients cannot be transferred; |
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| 49 | 49 | | 2.17 (3) assist with appropriate load-leveling within licensed health care facilities; and |
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| 50 | 50 | | 2.18 (4) provide information to allow more timely inpatient placements and more timely, |
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| 51 | 51 | | 2.19in-place mental health and substance use assessments. |
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| 52 | 52 | | 2.20 Sec. 3. APPROPRIATIONS. |
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| 53 | 53 | | 2.21 $950,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $950,000 in fiscal year 2025 are appropriated from the |
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| 54 | 54 | | 2.22general fund to the Emergency Medical Services Regulatory Board for costs of the |
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| 55 | 55 | | 2.23multijurisdiction communications and patient logistics platform. Of these amounts: |
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| 56 | 56 | | 2.24 (1) $750,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $750,000 in fiscal year 2025 are for the board to |
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| 57 | 57 | | 2.25purchase and implement the multijurisdiction communications and patient logistics platform |
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| 58 | 58 | | 2.26under Minnesota Statutes, section 144E.122, subdivision 1; |
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| 59 | 59 | | 2.27 (2) $180,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $180,000 in fiscal year 2025 are for grants under |
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| 60 | 60 | | 2.28Minnesota Statutes, section 144E.122, subdivision 2; and |
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| 61 | 61 | | 2.29 (3) $20,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $20,000 in fiscal year 2025 are for the board's |
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| 62 | 62 | | 2.30administrative costs to purchase and implement the platform and issue grants under Minnesota |
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| 63 | 63 | | 2.31Statutes, section 144E.122. |
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| 64 | 64 | | 2Sec. 3. |
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| 65 | 65 | | REVISOR AGW/CH 23-0141301/12/23 |
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