Section 208.978

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE

Chapter 208

Effective - 28 Aug 2007, 2 histories, see footnote   (history) 

  208.978.  Report on fund — recommendations — expiration date. — 1. The MO HealthNet oversight committee shall develop and report upon recommendations to be delivered to the governor and general assembly relating to the expenditure of funds appropriated to the health care technology fund established under section 208.975.

  2. Recommendations from the committee shall include an analysis and review, including but not limited to the following:

  (1) Reviewing the current status of health care information technology adoption by the health care delivery system in Missouri;

  (2) Addressing the potential technical, scientific, economic, security, privacy, and other issues related to the adoption of interoperable health care information technology in Missouri;

  (3) Evaluating the cost of using interoperable health care information technology by the health care delivery system in Missouri;

  (4) Identifying private resources and public/private partnerships to fund efforts to adopt interoperable health care information technology;

  (5) Exploring the use of telemedicine as a vehicle to improve health care access to Missourians;

  (6) Identifying methods and requirements for ensuring that not less than ten percent of appropriations within a single fiscal year shall be directed toward the purpose of expanding and developing minority-owned businesses that deliver technological enhancements to health care delivery systems and networks;

  (7) Developing requirements to be recommended to the general assembly that ensure not more than twenty-five percent of appropriations from the health care technology fund in any fiscal year shall be contractually awarded to a single entity;

  (8) Developing requirements to be recommended to the general assembly that ensure the number of contractual awards provided from the health care technology fund shall not be fewer than the number of congressional districts within Missouri; and

  (9) Recommending best practices or policies for state government and private entities to promote the adoption of interoperable health care information technology by the Missouri health care delivery system.

  3. The committee shall make and report its recommendations to the governor and general assembly on or before January 1, 2008.

  4. This section shall expire on April 15, 2008.

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(L. 2007 S.B. 577)

Expires 4-15-08