STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1406

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.C.R. No. 16

       S.D. 2

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 16, S.D. 1, entitled:

"SENATE 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 and intent of this measure is to encourage the State to support the efforts of the Hawaii Health Care Project and the Hawaii Health Information Exchange to implement an integrated, technology-based healthcare information system.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health, Hawai‘i Pacific Health, and Hawai‘i Health Information Exchange.

     Your Committee finds that a more coordinated and timely sharing of appropriate medical records exchanged in a secure manner will help prevent and manage obesity in Hawaii's population.  This measure requests cooperation amongst state agencies, the Hawaii Health Care Project, and the Hawaii Health Information Exchange and supports the efforts of a public-private partnership to include those with shared interests in providing data and receiving data through the system.  Your Committee further finds that these efforts will improve the efficiency of access to a patient's healthcare information, thereby improving the overall efficiency and quality of patient care in Hawaii.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment to the title for the purposes of clarity and consistency; and

     (2)  Making other technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 16, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 16, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection,

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair