Title: Statewide Heart Attack Registry

Summary: Requires AHCA to contract with private entity to establish & maintain statewide heart attack registry, subject to specific appropriation; requires hospitals to provide certain information to such registry; requires contracted entity to use nationally recognized platform to collect data & report on certain performance measures to agency; provides hospitals immunity from liability under certain circumstances.

Full Text:
An act relating to the statewide heart attack registry; creating s. 395.30385, F.S.; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to contract with a private entity to establish and maintain a statewide heart attack registry, subject to a specific appropriation; requiring hospitals to provide certain information to the statewide heart attack registry; requiring the contracted entity to use a nationally recognized platform to collect data; requiring the contracted entity to provide reports on heart attack performance measures to the agency; providing hospitals immunity from liability under certain circumstances; providing an effective date. Be It Ena cted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section 1. Section 395.30385, Florida Statutes, is created to read: 395.30385 Statewide heart attack registry.-(1) Subject to specific appropriation by the Legislature, the agency shall contract wi th a private entity to establish and maintain a statewide heart attack registry to ensure that the heart attack performance measures required to be submitted under subsection (2) are maintained and available for use to improve HB 1401 2020 or modify the heart attack ca re system, ensure compliance with standards and nationally recognized guidelines, and monitor heart attack patient outcomes. (2) Each hospital regulated by this chapter shall regularly report information consistent with nationally recognized heart attack performance measures to the statewide heart attack registry. (3) The agency shall require the contracted private entity to use a nationally recognized platform to collect data from each hospital on the heart attack performance measures required in subse ction (2). The contracted private entity shall provide regular reports on the data collected to the agency. (4) A liability of any kind or character for damages or other relief may not arise or be enforced against any hospital by reason of having provide dsuch information to the statewide heart attack registry. Section 2. This act shall take effect October 1, 2020.