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House advances health data bill after debate over confidentiality and funding
Summary
Lawmakers moved Senate Bill 235 (Health Data Committee) forward while members pressed sponsors on patient confidentiality and funding. Sponsors said voluntary hospital reporting had proven inadequate and that a $200,000 start-up level was agreed for initial work.
Legislators debated Senate Bill 235, a measure to establish a health-data committee intended to collect standardized information to inform policy on rising health-care costs, quality and access.
The sponsor said the committee is critical to getting the uniform data needed to shape policy. "We can't even begin to address these kinds of issues in a meaningful way without getting good…
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