HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1764        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1064

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act to establish a computerized physician order entry community hospital fund..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

Notwithstanding any general or special law or regulation to the contrary, 50 per cent of the surplus, if any, contained in the health safety net fund established in section 36 of chapter 118G, shall be transferred to a computerized physician order entry, referred to in this section as “CPOE”, community hospital fund to be administered by the division of health care finance and policy. The division shall develop grant award criteria for the purpose of funding physician CPOE education and training activities in the community hospital setting. Grant applicants shall file CPOE implementation plans with the division detailing their project and estimated expenses.