STAND. COM. REP. NO.  932

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

RE:   H.C.R. No. 21

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 21 entitled:

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE STATE OF HAWAII TO SUPPORT THE EFFORTS OF THE HAWAII HEALTH CARE PROJECT AND THE HAWAII HEALTH INFORMATION EXCHANGE TO IMPLEMENT AN EFFICIENT AND EFFECTIVE, INTEGRATED, TECHNOLOGY-BASED HEALTHCARE INFORMATION SYSTEM,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to institute a robust healthcare data environment to maximize the prevention and treatment of obesity across the healthcare continuum and stages of life by requesting:

(1)  The State to support the efforts of the Hawaii Health Care Project and the Hawaii Health Information Exchange to implement an efficient and effective, integrated, technology-based health care information system; and

(2)  The Hawaii Health Care Project and Hawaii Health Information Exchange to ensure that the system is developed with and maintained under a public-private partnership to include those with shared interests in providing data into and receiving data through the system.

The Governor's Office, Department of Health, Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Hawai‘i Pacific Health, Hawai‘i Association of Professional Nurses, Hawaii Medical Service Association, and two individuals supported this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1)  Specifying that certified copies of this concurrent resolution be transmitted to the Governor, Director of Health, and Hawaii Healthcare Transformation Coordinator; and

(2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 21, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 21, H.D. 1.

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

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DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair