Florida Senate - 2024 SB 668 By Senator Rodriguez 40-00695-24 2024668__ 1 A bill to be entitled 2 An act relating to electronic health records; amending 3 s. 408.051, F.S.; requiring certain hospitals to make 4 patients’ electronic health records available through 5 a nationally recognized trusted exchange framework; 6 providing that hospitals may maintain national network 7 connectivity directly or through a third-party vendor; 8 providing an exemption; requiring the Agency for 9 Health Care Administration to adopt rules; amending s. 10 408.0611, F.S.; requiring certain hospitals to make 11 specified patient data available to the agency’s 12 Florida Health Information Exchange program for 13 specified purposes; requiring certain community 14 pharmacies to participate in the agency’s Emergency 15 Patient Look-Up System for a specified purpose; 16 providing an exemption; requiring the agency to adopt 17 rules; amending s. 408.821, F.S.; requiring certain 18 licensees to report certain information in a manner, 19 timeframe, and frequency prescribed by agency rule; 20 providing an effective date. 21 22 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 23 24 Section 1. Present subsections (5) and (6) of section 25 408.051, Florida Statutes, are redesignated as subsections (6) 26 and (7), respectively, and a new subsection (5) is added to that 27 section, to read: 28 408.051 Florida Electronic Health Records Exchange Act.— 29 (5) TRUSTED EXCHANGE FRAMEWORK REQUIREMENT.—Hospitals as 30 defined in s. 395.002 which maintain certified electronic health 31 record technology shall make patients’ electronic health records 32 available through a nationally recognized trusted exchange 33 framework. 34 (a) Hospitals may maintain national network connectivity 35 directly or through a third-party vendor. 36 (b) Hospitals with 25 or fewer beds are exempt from this 37 subsection. 38 (c) The agency shall adopt rules necessary to implement 39 this subsection. 40 Section 2. Subsections (5) and (6) are added to section 41 408.0611, Florida Statutes, to read: 42 408.0611 Electronic prescribing clearinghouse.— 43 (5) Hospitals as defined in s. 395.002 which maintain 44 certified electronic health record technology must make patient 45 admission, transfer, and discharge data available to the 46 agency’s Florida Health Information Exchange program for the 47 purpose of supporting public health data registries and patient 48 care coordination. 49 (6) Beginning January 1, 2025, a community pharmacy as 50 defined in s. 465.003(20)(a)1. which maintains a system for 51 electronic prescribing as defined in s. 408.0611(2) shall 52 participate in the agency’s Emergency Patient Look-Up System for 53 the purpose of supporting emergency response during a declared 54 state of emergency. 55 (a) Internet pharmacies as defined in s. 465.003 are exempt 56 from this subsection until their electronic prescribing vendor 57 is connected to the agency’s Emergency Patient Look-Up System. 58 (b) The agency shall adopt rules necessary to administer 59 this subsection. 60 Section 3. Subsection (5) is added to section 408.821, 61 Florida Statutes, to read: 62 408.821 Emergency management planning; emergency 63 operations; inactive license.— 64 (5) Licensees required to report information under 65 subsection (4) must do so in a manner, timeframe, and frequency 66 prescribed by agency rule. 67 Section 4. This act shall take effect July 1, 2024.