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Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) recommending the Board:
1) Authorize the HHSA Director, the HHSA Chief Assistant (CA) Director, or the HHSA Behavioral Health (BH) Director to accept the Data Exchange Framework (DxF) Qualified Health Information Organization (QHIO) Onboarding Grant program Round 3, if awarded, administered by California Health and Human Services Agency (CalHHS), in the estimated amount of $50,000, for the performance period of two years; and
2) Delegate authority to the HHSA Director, HHSA CA Director, or the HHSA BH Director, to execute the resulting Grant Agreement and future amendments that do not increase Net County Cost, contingent upon County Counsel and Risk Management approval, and subsequent administrative documents, including fiscal or programmatic reports, required to administer the funding.
FUNDING: 100% State funding administered by CalHHS per Health and Safety Code (HSC) Section 130290; no matching funds are required.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND:
In July of 2022, the California Governor and Legislature established several phases for implementing the California DxF, the first-ever, statewide data sharing agreement that will accelerate and expand the exchange of health and social services information among health and social service organizations, to be administered by CalHHS. Phase one of the DxF started with CalHHS developing a non-financial single Data Sharing Agreement (DSA) and a common set of Policies and Procedures that govern the exchange of information among health care entities and government agencies in California.
Under HSC Section 130290, California health care entities were required to execute the DSA by January 2023. Subsequently, CalHHS invited other health care and social services providers, such as counties, community-based organizations, emergency medical services, and mental health providers, to voluntarily execute a DSA. On March 22, 2023, the HHSA BH Director elected to voluntarily execute ...
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