Senate Bill sb1464
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Florida Senate - 2004 SB 1464
By the Committee on Health, Aging, and Long-Term Care
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1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to patient safety; requiring
3 the Patient Safety Center at the Florida State
4 University College of Medicine to study the
5 return on investment by hospitals from
6 implementing computerized physician order entry
7 and other information technologies related to
8 patient safety; providing requirements for the
9 study; requiring a report to the Governor and
10 the Legislature; amending s. 395.1012, F.S.;
11 providing additional duties of the patient
12 safety committee at hospitals and other
13 licensed facilities; requiring patient safety
14 officers to make certain recommendations
15 concerning the use of computerized physician
16 order entry and other information technologies;
17 providing an effective date.
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19 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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21 Section 1. The Patient Safety Center at the Florida
22 State University College of Medicine, in collaboration with
23 researchers at other state universities, shall conduct a study
24 to analyze the return on investment that hospitals in this
25 state could realize from implementing computerized physician
26 order entry and other information technologies related to
27 patient safety. For the purposes of this analysis, the return
28 on investment shall include both financial results and
29 benefits relating to quality of care and patient safety. The
30 study must include a representative sample of large and small
31 hospitals, located in urban and rural areas, in the north,
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1 central, and southern regions of the state. By February 1,
2 2005, the Patient Safety Center at the Florida State
3 University College of Medicine must submit a report to the
4 Governor, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the
5 House of Representatives concerning the results of the study.
6 Section 2. Section 395.1012, Florida Statutes, is
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8 395.1012 Patient safety.--
9 (1) Each licensed facility must adopt a patient safety
10 plan. A plan adopted to implement the requirements of 42
11 C.F.R. part 482.21 shall be deemed to comply with this
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13 (2) Each licensed facility shall appoint a patient
14 safety officer and a patient safety committee, which shall
15 include at least one person who is neither employed by nor
16 practicing in the facility, for the purpose of promoting the
17 health and safety of patients, reviewing and evaluating the
18 quality of patient safety measures used by the facility,
19 recommending improvements in the patient safety measures used
20 by the facility, and assisting in the implementation of the
21 facility patient safety plan.
22 (3) The patient safety officer must recommend changes
23 in the system of patient care which would be necessary for the
24 hospital to use computerized physician order entry and other
25 information technologies.
26 Section 3. This act shall take effect upon becoming a
27 law.
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2 SENATE SUMMARY
3 Requires the Patient Safety Center at the Florida State
University College of Medicine to study the return on
4 investment by hospitals from implementing computerized
physician order entry and other information technologies
5 related to patient safety. Requires the center to report
to the Governor, the President of the Senate, and the
6 Speaker of the House of Representatives. Requires the
patient safety committee and the patient safety officer
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recommendations concerning patient safety.
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