HB1225 - Digital Health Records Summary

• Requires major social service providers with assets exceeding a specified amount to coordinate with Hawaii's state-designated health information exchange entity to share data on social determinants of health including food, nutrition, transportation, housing, and assisted living services.

• Makes enrollment in the Hawaii immunization registry mandatory for all health care providers administering immunizations, including COVID-19 vaccines, effective August 1, 2021, unless patients or parents/guardians opt out.

• Directs the examiner of drivers to link organ donor information from driver's license database to the statewide health information exchange system.

• Requires the department of health to coordinate with the state-designated health information exchange entity to link Hawaii immunization registry data to the statewide health information exchange.

• Expands definitions of "health care provider" and adds "COVID-19 vaccine" definition to include vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 and its mutations; effective July 1, 2021.