STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2764

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 2086

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 2086, H.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH CARE DATA,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to allow clinical laboratory test results to be provided to authorized persons or any covered entity for any purpose permitted under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Medical Association and the Hawaii Medical Service Association.  The Department of Health supports the intent of this measure with amendments.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

     Your Committee finds that this measure will enable regional information sharing as well as intrastate healthcare information exchanges.  Your Committee further finds that appropriate sharing of health data within the healthcare system is an important step in improving the quality and coordination and lowering the costs of medical care.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making it effective upon approval.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2086, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2086, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair