The Florida Senate

455.5653  Practitioner profiles; data storage.--Effective upon this act becoming a law, the Department of Health must develop or contract for a computer system to accommodate the new data collection and storage requirements under this act pending the development and operation of a computer system by the Department of Health for handling the collection, input, revision, and update of data submitted by physicians as a part of their initial licensure or renewal to be compiled into individual practitioner profiles. The Department of Health must incorporate any data required by this act into the computer system used in conjunction with the regulation of health care professions under its jurisdiction. The department must develop, by the year 2000, a schedule and procedures for each practitioner within a health care profession regulated within the Division of Medical Quality Assurance to submit relevant information to be compiled into a profile to be made available to the public. The Department of Health is authorized to contract with and negotiate any interagency agreement necessary to develop and implement the practitioner profiles. The Department of Health shall have access to any information or record maintained by the Agency for Health Care Administration, including any information or record that is otherwise confidential and exempt from the provisions of chapter 119 and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution, so that the Department of Health may corroborate any information that physicians are required to report under ¹s. 455.565.

History.--s. 130, ch. 97-237; s. 6, ch. 97-273.

¹Note.--Substituted by the editors for a reference to "section 1 of this act." The references to "section 1 of this act" in s. 130, ch. 97-237, and s. 6, ch. 97-273, are incorrect; the correct references, to "section 127" and "section 3," were redesignated as s. 455.565 by the reviser.