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As used in the Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Prevention Act: A. "administrative co-chair" means the chief medical officer of the department or another representative of the department appointed by the secretary of health; B. "aggregate data" means health care data that exclude any individually identifiable health information, including patient and health care provider identification; C. "chief medical officer" means the chief medical officer of the department; D. "clinical co-chair" means a committee member with maternal child health clinical or paraprofessional training nominated by the committee and approved by the department to serve in this position; E. "committee" means the maternal mortality review committee; F. "committee member" means a person who has been appointed to sit as a
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As used in the Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Prevention Act: A. "administrative co-chair" means the chief medical officer of the department or another representative of the department appointed by the secretary of health; B. "aggregate data" means health care data that exclude any individually identifiable health information, including patient and health care provider identification; C. "chief medical officer" means the chief medical officer of the department; D. "clinical co-chair" means a committee member with maternal child health clinical or paraprofessional training nominated by the committee and approved by the department to serve in this position; E. "committee" means the maternal mortality review committee; F. "committee member" means a person who has been appointed to sit as a member of the committee and who participates in committee business and votes on committee matters; G. "critical income" means income lost as a result of uncompensated work time used to attend a committee meeting; H. "de-identified data" means data from which the following identifiers have been removed: (1) names; (2) any geographic subdivision smaller than a state, including street address, city, county, precinct and zip code and their equivalent geocodes; (3) all elements of dates, except the year of an incident, that are directly related to an individual, including birth date, admission date, date of delivery, discharge date and date of death; (4) telephone numbers; (5) fax numbers; (6) electronic mail addresses; (7) social security numbers; (8) medical record numbers; (9) health plan beneficiary numbers; (10) account numbers; (11) certificate and license numbers; (12) vehicle identifiers and serial numbers, including license plate numbers; (13) device identifiers and serial numbers; (14) web universal resource locators, also known as "URLs"; (15) internet protocol address numbers; (16) biometric identifiers, including finger and voice prints; (17) full-face photographic images and any comparable images; and (18) any other unique identifying number, characteristic or code; I. "department" means the department of health; J. "health care provider" means: (1) an individual licensed, certified or otherwise authorized to provide health care services in the ordinary course of business in the state; or (2) a health facility that the department licenses; K. "law enforcement agency" means a law enforcement agency of the state, an Indian nation, tribe or pueblo or a political subdivision of the state; L. "maternal mortality" means the death of a pregnant woman or a woman within one year postpartum; M. "medical record" means the written or graphic documentation, sound recording or electronic record relating to medical, behavioral health and health care services that a patient receives from a health care provider or under the direction of a physician or another licensed health care provider. "Medical record" includes diagnostic documentation, including an x-ray, electrocardiogram and electroencephalogram; other test results; data entered into a prescription drug monitoring program; and an autopsy report; N. "operational staff" means staff or contractors of the department assigned or contracted to support the work of the committee or its executive committee; O. "qualified invited guest" means a person approved by the co-chairs and invited by the committee to attend a committee meeting to provide technical expertise to the committee, to enhance training in maternal health, to provide insight on maternal mortality or severe maternal morbidity review in other jurisdictions or to provide operational support to the committee; and P. "severe maternal morbidity" means unexpected outcomes of labor and delivery that result in significant short- or long-term consequences to a woman's health as identified by hospitalizations using administrative hospital discharge data and the world health organization's International Classification of Diseases diagnosis and procedure codes.