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SB 549 Geospatial Health Research; Secretaries of Health and Human Resources and Technology to evaluate.

Introduced by: George L. Barker | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED:

Virginia Network for Geospatial Health Research Authority; created.  Requires the Secretaries of Health and Human Resources and Technology to evaluate opportunities to partner with nonprofit organizations and institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth to develop a network for geospatial health research, and to report on their findings to the Governor; the Senate Committees on Education and Health, Finance, and General Laws and Technology; and the House Committees on Appropriations, Health, Welfare, and Institutions, and Science and Technology no later than December 1, 2010. 

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Virginia Network for Geospatial Health Research Authority; created.  Creates the Virginia Network for Geospatial Health Research Authority, as a body politic and corporate, a political subdivision of the Commonwealth, to (i) provide for the continuity and expansion of research within both the public and private sectors using geospatial analysis of health and health care relevant data, (ii) develop economies of scale within state health agencies and within public health programs within the Commonwealth’s universities, (iii) provide geospatial analytical support to other political subdivisions concerned with cost-effective targeting of public health initiatives, and (iv) engage in such other lawful activities as the Board of Directors of the Authority deems reasonable and appropriate.