Bill > S1176

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. Establishing the Betsy Lehman Center within the state's Department of Public Health to serve as a clearinghouse for the development, evaluation, and dissemination of best practices for patient safety and medical error reduction. 2. Creating a Patient Safety and Medical Errors Reduction Board within the Betsy Lehman Center, consisting of various state officials and an advisory committee, to oversee the Center's operations. 3. Requiring the Betsy Lehman Center to develop and administer a patient safety and medical error reduction education and research program, report annually to the Governor and Legislature on the feasibility of developing standards for patient safety and medical error reduction programs, and identify and disseminate information about evidence-based best practices to reduce medical errors and enhance patient safety. 4. Allowing the Betsy Lehman Center and state agencies that collect or maintain patient safety information to share such information, subject to necessary safeguards to protect privacy and security. 5. Authorizing the Betsy Lehman Center to adopt rules and regulations, as well as contract with various entities, to carry out its purpose and provisions.

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https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S1176