Bill Text: HI SB532 | 2019 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Health Care Peer Review.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-01-24 - Referred to CPH. [SB532 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2019-SB532-Introduced.html
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THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2019 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to health care peer review.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that in order to provide well-trained physicians for Hawaii who are committed to delivering high quality, safe, and effective care for patients, postgraduate medical physicians (i.e., residents and fellow physicians) are required by their training program's national accrediting body, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, and their specialty boards to actively learn about and participate in health care quality improvement activities, in close alignment with the health care entities who provide the clinical learning environment for these trainees. One of the core competencies that all physicians are expected to attain by the end of their residency training is to continuously improve patient care based on constant self-evaluation and life-long learning. Resident and fellow physicians are expected to incorporate formative evaluation feedback, such as peer review as defined in chapter 671D, Hawaii Revised Statutes, into their daily practice. They are also expected to participate in identifying system errors and implementing potential systems solutions, which mirrors the intent of chapter 671D, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
The legislature further finds that although postgraduate medical physicians are currently subject to being named in lawsuits, they are unable to participate in and attain protections granted by the peer review processes that are intended to improve the quality of medical care delivery.
Accordingly, the purpose of this Act is to encourage postgraduate medical physicians to participate in peer-review processes by affording them the same incentives and protections as licensed physicians engaging in effective peer review.
SECTION 2. Section 671D-4, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending the definition of "physician" to read as follows:
""Physician" means an
individual licensed under chapter 453 or section 463E-1, to practice medicine
or surgery or osteopathy or podiatric medicine[;], including those
physicians participating in nationally-recognized accredited graduate medical
training programs that occur in a health care entity; an individual
licensed under chapter 448 to practice dentistry or dental surgery; or any
individual who, without authority, holds oneself out to be so authorized.
SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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Report Title:
Health Care Peer Review; Physicians
Description:
Amends the definition of "physician", for purposes of health care peer review, to include physicians participating in nationally-recognized accredited graduate medical training programs that occur in a health care entity.
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