31-53-20. Legislative findings.

The General Assembly finds that:#

1. (1)

   Cost of care, diagnostic metrics, care gaps, and best practices are best analyzed with large-scale data;#

2. (2)

   The current data infrastructure must be adapted to adequately integrate state and private resources in a manner that will serve the divergent needs of the state;#

3. (3)

   All components of state data collection and dissemination infrastructure must be more strategic and better coordinated to serve policy makers and health care providers; and#

4. (4)

   A more robust data base will also serve as a platform to provide resources to the public for healthy living and cost transparency.#

The General Assembly, therefore, declares it to be the public policy of this state to unite the major stakeholders of the state’s health care system under a common data platform. The public policy of the state will be served by restructuring data silos to inform policy makers, health care providers, and consumers.#