1E Changing best practices guidelines to evidence based health care guidelines for health care cost containment purposes and prescribing certain criteria for the guidelines, requiring the commissioner of health to collaborate with a state nonprofit quality improvement organization specializing in producing and using guidelines for guidelines identification purposes, requiring identification and promotion of the guidelines by a certain date; providing for measurement and reporting of performance of medical groups, hospitals and other health care providers in providing care according to the guidelines, specifying certain duties of the commissioner; requiring the commissioner in consultation with the commissioners of finance and administration to submit recommendations to the legislature by a certain date to establish a quality improvement investment program to provide technical assistance, grants and low interest loans to health care organizations and health professional associations to support establishing or updating electronic information systems for efficient and effective health care services delivery and administrative costs reduction purposes
(ra, ja)