Amendment ID: S2265-2-R1

Redraft Amendment 2

Virtual Data Warehouse

Mr. Lewis moves to amend the bill by inserting after section 99 the following section:-

"SECTION 99A. The department of public health, in consultation with the center for health information and analysis, shall develop an implementation proposal and spending plan to create a data warehouse, linking relevant private and public data systems in order to receive near real-time data feeds from vital records, hospitals and other clinical partners.  In the proposal, all efforts shall be made by the department and the center to limit duplicative reporting requirements by vital records, hospitals and other clinical partners.  The proposal shall: (a) streamline the operation of applicable institutional review boards; (b) engage academic partners to help support surveillance and evaluation activities; (c) amend the department’s reporting functions in order to allow for expedited reporting based on partially complete but statistically reliable data; and (d) set forth the timeline for implementing the data warehouse. The warehouse shall be subject to the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996,  42 CFR Part 2 and all other applicable state and federal laws governing the confidentiality of personal data.

The department, in consultation with the center, shall submit the implementation proposal and spending plan, as well as any additional legislative language necessary to implement the data warehouse project, not later than December 1, 2014, to the house and senate committees on ways and means, the joint committee on public safety and homeland security, the joint committee on health care financing and the joint committee on public health."