Bill > S669

This bill makes technical changes to the Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety and Medical Error Reduction enabling statute. The key provisions of the bill include: 1. Defining important terms such as "adverse event", "agency", "healthcare-associated infection", "incident", and "medical error" as they relate to patient safety. 2. Establishing the Betsy Lehman Center within the state government, with the purpose of serving as a clearinghouse for developing, evaluating, and disseminating best practices for patient safety and medical error reduction. 3. Creating a Patient Safety and Medical Errors Reduction Board within the Betsy Lehman Center, which will oversee the Center's operations and appoint a Director. 4. Requiring the Betsy Lehman Center to develop and administer a patient safety and medical error reduction education and research program, and to report annually to the Governor and the Legislature on the feasibility of developing standards for such programs. 5. Authorizing the Betsy Lehman Center to collect and analyze data on medical errors, and to share such information with other state agencies through agreements that protect the privacy and security of the information. 6. Granting the Betsy Lehman Center the authority to adopt rules and regulations, and to contract with other entities to carry out its mission. The overall goal of the bill is to enhance patient safety and reduce medical errors in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

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https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/S669