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Panel scales back plan for statewide health data system, orders feasibility reporting
Summary
Committee leaders agreed to replace immediate language to build an integrated clinical-and-claims data system with a feasibility evaluation and a report-back timeline after members raised privacy, scope and implementation concerns.
During markup of S.126 on May 2, lawmakers amended draft language that would have directed development and implementation of an integrated statewide system of clinical and claims data. The committee instead directed AHS to evaluate feasibility and report back, citing privacy, scope and implementation uncertainty.
Committee members questioned whether the draft aimed at de-identified data analytics, a shared statewide health record, or commercial claims integration. AHS staff and other witnesses had previously described an AHS pilot linking Medicaid clinical and claims data; in the transcript a committee member said…
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