§ 2995-d. Further study of other health care practitioner data. The department shall:

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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.