The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
(a) Health information technology provides tools that can improve the quality, safety, and value of health care services. However, the full benefit of health information technology cannot be realized until electronic health record systems supporting the secure exchange of individual health records are in place and used by health care providers, payers, patients, and other individuals throughout the state, and across state boundaries.
(b) There is a need to promote secure electronic health data exchange among payers, health care providers, consumers of health care, researchers, and governmental agencies.
(c) Health information exchange necessarily includes the sharing of private health records and information of individuals. Establishing the security of individual privacy rights and confidentiality of personal health and medical records is of paramount importance to creating public confidence in any broad-based electronic health records system. Ensuring transparent accountability, governance, and oversight are critical components to maintaining the public’s trust.
(d) The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) (Public Law 111-5) includes within it the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (the HITECH Act). The HITECH Act provides an unprecedented opportunity for California to develop a statewide health information technology infrastructure to improve California’s health care system. It includes provisions and federal funding to encourage the adoption and meaningful use of health information technology and exchange.
(e) Section 3013 of ARRA provides federal grant funds to facilitate and expand the electronic movement and use of health information among organizations according to nationally recognized standards.
(f) Lack of a timely and available health information exchange jeopardizes the ability of the state and providers to access available federal Medicaid and Medicare incentive payments.
(Added by Stats. 2009, Ch. 180, Sec. 2. (SB 337) Effective January 1, 2010.)
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