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Subcommittee considers bill to create statewide health-care professional data system
Summary
Senate Bill 131 would direct the Georgia Board of Health Care Workforce to compile a searchable, statewide inventory of licensed health-care professionals by non-personal attributes to help planners and consumers identify coverage gaps; committee discussion focused on which identifiers would be public and how to deduplicate multi‑site providers.
Senate Bill 131, sponsored in the hearing by Senator Hodges, would require the Georgia Board of Health Care Workforce to assemble a statewide, searchable data system listing licensed health-care professionals by non-personal attributes, supporters told the Occupation and Professional Licenses Subcommittee.
The bill would amend Chapter 10 of Title 49 to create a new code section, 49-10-8, directing the board to collect and publish provider lists showing demographic and practice characteristics such as age, language proficiency, gender, ethnicity, location of practice and license type, Senator Hodges said. "This bill is pretty simple. It establish establishes health care professional, data system across the state," Hodges said during her…
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