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AB-1275 Health information.(2023-2024)



As Amends the Law Today


SECTION 1.
 It is the intent of the Legislature to advance the use of telehealth and increase access to health care by establishing state policy that optimizes the use of telehealth to augment and enhance health and medical care for all California residents, especially those residents who are medically underserved, in order to improve individual patient outcomes and overall population health.

SEC. 2.

 Section 130209.5 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:

130209.5.
 (a) The State Department of Health Care Services, in collaboration with the California Health and Human Services Agency, shall collect appropriate data and identify indicators for tracking telehealth outcomes associated with impacting individual patient outcomes and overall population health. The department shall collect all of the following data:
(1) Medi-Cal program data that tracks individual and overall population health outcomes.
(2) Medi-Cal program data on who has access to telehealth, the effectivenesss of telehealth, and access to special care.
(3) Medi-Cal program morbidity and mortality data, including environmental factors.
(b) The department shall use the data collected pursuant to subdivision (a) to measure the health outcomes of populations by using all of the following determinants:
(1) Medical care.
(2) Public health interventions.
(3) Social determinants, including income, employment, social support, and culture.
(4) Physical environment, including urban design, air quality, and access to clean water.
(5) Genetics.
(6) Individual behavior.