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Committee advances bill to create statewide health-care provider directory after adding age/location fields
Summary
Senate Bill 131 would direct the Georgia Board of Healthcare Workforce to build a statewide, searchable registry of licensed health-care providers; the committee agreed to an amendment requiring month-and-year of birth and city/county/ZIP fields to support age and geographic analysis and advanced the bill as amended.
Senate Bill 131, agency legislation for the Georgia Board of Healthcare Workforce, would create a statewide, searchable list of licensed health-care professionals organized by practice type, language proficiency, gender and location to help planners and consumers locate providers.
The sponsor told the committee the directory would support two primary uses: health-care planners assessing geographic gaps and consumers seeking a particular type of provider. "Basically, this will be used by two types of people," the sponsor said, adding the board could also seek federal or other funding to establish and maintain the…
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