Amended in Senate June 23, 2015

Amended in Assembly May 4, 2015

Amended in Assembly April 6, 2015

California Legislature—2015–16 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 1129

Introduced by Assembly Member Burke

February 27, 2015

An act to add Section 1797.225 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to emergency medical services.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 1129, as amended, Burke. Emergency medical services: data and information system.

Existing law, the Emergency Medical Services System and the Prehospital Emergency Medical Care Personnel Act, governs local emergency medical services (EMS) systems. The act establishes the Emergency Medical Services Authority, which is responsible for the coordination and integration of all state agencies concerning emergency medical services. Existing law requires a local EMS agency to plan, implement, and evaluate an emergency medical services system, as specified, and authorizes the local EMS agency to develop and submit a plan to the authority for an emergency medical services system according to prescribed guidelines that address data collection and evaluation, among other things.

This bill would require an emergency medical care provider to, when collecting and submitting data to a local EMS agency, use begin delete a end delete begin insert an electronic health record end insert system that exports data in a format that is compatible with the California Emergency Medical Services Information System (CEMSIS) and the National Emergency Medical Services Information System (NEMSIS) standards, includes those data elements required by the local EMS agency, and uses begin delete a end delete begin insert an electronic health record end insert system that can be integrated with the local EMS agency’s begin insert data end insert system, as specified. The bill would prohibit a local EMS agency from mandating that a provider use a begin delete specified end delete begin insert specific electronic health record end insert system to collect and share data with the agency. begin insert The bill would not modify or affect contract or agreement executed before January 1, 2016, between a local EMS agency and an emergency medical care provider. end insert

Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.  

Section 1797.225 is added to the Health and
Safety Code, to read:

1797.225.  

(a) An emergency medical care provider shall do
both of the following when collecting and submitting data to a
local EMS agency:

(1) Use begin delete a end delete begin insert an electronic health record end insert system that exports data
in a format that is compatible with the California Emergency
Medical Services Information System (CEMSIS) and the National
Emergency Medical Services Information System (NEMSIS)
standards and includes those data elements that are required by
the local EMS agency.

(2) Ensure that the begin insert electronic health record end insert system can be
integrated with the local EMS agency’s begin insert data end insert system, so that the
local EMS agency may collect data from the provider.

(b) A local EMS agency shall not mandate that a provider use
a specific begin insert electronic health record end insert system to collect and share data
with the local EMS agency.

begin insert (c) end insert begin insert   end insert begin insert This provision shall not modify or affect an existing contract
or agreement executed before January 1, 2016, between a local
EMS agency and an emergency medical care provider. end insert