Bill > H2002

This bill aims to advance innovations in digital health technology to improve patient outcomes and the quality of health care delivered in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The key provisions include: 1. Requiring the Massachusetts eHealth Institute to partner with the healthcare and technology community to accelerate the creation and adoption of digital health technologies to drive economic growth and improve healthcare outcomes and efficiency. 2. Expanding the Institute's mandate to include advancing the Commonwealth's economic competitiveness by supporting the digital health industry and its role in improving the quality of healthcare delivery and patient outcomes. 3. Directing the Institute to identify and promote the growth of companies and organizations engaged in developing new technologies associated with health information technology, including web-based and personalized care delivery, and the incorporation of social determinants of health data into digital health technology. 4. Allowing the Institute to prioritize improving the Commonwealth's economic competitiveness in digital health if a significant portion of healthcare providers implement and use interoperable electronic health records systems.

Health and Social Services

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H2002