Bill > S1048

Introduced Session

This bill provides for the establishment of centralized electronic health information exchange infrastructure to facilitate reentry into civilian life for recently incarcerated persons. Under the bill, the New Jersey Health Information Technology Commission (commission) is to establish centralized, electronic health information exchange infrastructure, in a manner determined by the commission in consultation with the Department of Health and the Department of Corrections, for the purpose of electronically storing and sharing a patient's health information which is submitted to or requested of the commission by a health care professional, the Department of Corrections, a jail or prison, a prisoner reentry program or service, or an addiction treatment services provider. The commission is to ensure that the health information exchange infrastructure established pursuant to this bill helps to facilitate the necessary exchange of a patient's health information between a health care professional, the Department of Corrections, a jail or prison, a prisoner reentry program or service, or an addiction treatment services provider at the request of the patient and with the patient's informed consent. The commission is to ensure that its health information exchange infrastructure and protocols for storing and sharing a patient's health information comply with applicable federal and State privacy laws.

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Joe Cryan (D)*, 

Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee (on 01/30/2020)