2009 California Health and Safety Code - Section 101950 :: Part 5. Long-term Care Infrastructure Blueprint

101950.  (a) The California Health and Human Services Agency shall
develop a long-term care infrastructure blueprint to analyze how
information technology could be utilized to do all of the following:
   (1) Provide consistent information and referrals to consumers'
requests for information on long-term care service availability and
eligibility requirements.
   (2) Develop a core client services record that contains key
assessment and care planning information.
   (3) Transmit core client information from one agency to another
when making a service referral.
   (4) Create a long-term care data warehouse at state level to
facilitate state and regional long-term care strategic planning,
development, and evaluation.
   (b) The blueprint developed shall include all of the following:
   (1) A technical analysis of the data currently being collected by
public long-term care programs.
   (2) An evaluation of the information technology currently
available to accomplish tasks specified in subdivision (a).
   (3) A cost-benefit analysis of the information technology options
identified.
   (4) A proposal of incremental steps, and the corresponding
budgetary outlays, required to develop the long-term care information
infrastructure.
   (c) The agency shall contract with a consulting firm that has been
successful in assisting other states in undertaking similar
infrastructure building endeavors, or that can demonstrate comparable
experience, for preparation of the technical analysis.
   (d) The agency shall ensure that the planning, development, and
implementation of changes that occur as a result of this section
encourage and allow concurrent implementation and operation of a
long-term care integration pilot project consistent with Article 4.3
(commencing with Section 14139.05) of Chapter 7 of Part 3 of Division
9.
   (e) The agency shall report to the Legislature, in writing, on or
before January 1, 2001, regarding the results of the technical
analysis and the progress made on the development of the long-term
care infrastructure blueprints.