Bill Text: IA HF32 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to health data collected and used by the department of public health.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-01-25 - Subcommittee: Bacon, Forristall and Wessel-Kroeschell. H.J. 123. [HF32 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-HF32-Introduced.html

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House File 32 - Introduced




                                 HOUSE FILE       
                                 BY  PETTENGILL and JONES

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to health data collected and used  by the
  2    department of public health.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 135.166, Code 2017, is amended to read
  1  2 as follows:
  1  3    135.166  Health care data == collection and use  == collection
  1  4  from hospitals.
  1  5    1.  a.  The department of public health shall enter into
  1  6 a memorandum of understanding to utilize the Iowa hospital
  1  7 association to act as the department's intermediary in
  1  8 collecting, maintaining, and disseminating hospital inpatient,
  1  9 outpatient, and ambulatory information data, as initially
  1 10 authorized in 1996 Iowa Acts, ch. 1212, {5, subsection 1,
  1 11 paragraph "a", subparagraph (4), and 641 IAC 177.3.
  1 12    2.  b.  The memorandum of understanding shall include but
  1 13 is not limited to provisions that address the duties of the
  1 14 department and the Iowa hospital association regarding the
  1 15 collection, reporting, disclosure, storage, and confidentiality
  1 16 of the data.
  1 17    2.  Unless otherwise authorized or required by state
  1 18 or federal law, data collected under this section shall
  1 19 not include personally identifiable information about the
  1 20 individual subject of the data, including but not limited to
  1 21 the individual's name, date of birth, and social security
  1 22 number. For the purposes of this subsection, "personally
  1 23 identifiable information" means any item, collection, or
  1 24 grouping of data which allows the  individual subject of the
  1 25 data to be identified.
  1 26                           EXPLANATION
  1 27 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1 28 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  1 29    This bill relates to health data collected and used by the
  1 30 department of public health.
  1 31    The bill amends Code section 135.166 to provide that unless
  1 32 otherwise authorized by state or federal law, data collected
  1 33 under Code section 135.166 shall not include personally
  1 34 identifiable information about the individual subject of the
  1 35 data, including but not limited to the individual's name,
  2  1 date of birth, and social security number.  The bill defines
  2  2 "personally identifiable information" as any item, collection,
  2  3 or grouping of data which allows the individual subject of the
  2  4 data to be identified.
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