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SECTION 2995-D
Further study of other health care practitioner data
Public Health (PBH) CHAPTER 45, ARTICLE 29-D, TITLE 1
§ 2995-d. Further study of other health care practitioner data. The
department shall:

1. Identify the classes of health care practitioners licensed,
certified or registered pursuant to title eight of the education law,
concerning whom it would be feasible and useful to collect and
disseminate information useful for making determinations concerning
health care quality;

2. Investigate the types of data concerning such practitioners to
which the public has access, including all information provided by
federal, state or local agencies, and the applicable data reporting
requirements;

3. Determine which data concerning such practitioners and which
methods of accessing such data, will be the most useful and convenient
for health care consumers;

4. Study the feasibility and utility of providing practitioner
profiles by means of the system commonly known as the Internet, on a
single website; and

5. Provide a report of its findings to the governor and legislature
within eighteen months of the effective date of this section.