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1.The Division of Health Care Information within the State Department of Health shall, in accordance with the rules of the State Commissioner of Health, collect health care information from information providers.
2.The information to be collected about information providers may include, but shall not be limited to: a. financial information including, but not limited to, consumption of resources to provide services, reimbursement, costs of operation, revenues, assets, liabilities, fund balances, other income, rates, charges, units of service, wage and salary data, b. service information including, but not limited to, occupancy, capacity, and special and ancillary services, c. physician profiles in the aggregate by clinical specialties and nursing services, d. discharge data including,
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A. 1. The Division of Health Care Information within the State Department of Health shall, in accordance with the rules of the State Commissioner of Health, collect health care information from information providers. 2. The information to be collected about information providers may include, but shall not be limited to: a. financial information including, but not limited to, consumption of resources to provide services, reimbursement, costs of operation, revenues, assets, liabilities, fund balances, other income, rates, charges, units of service, wage and salary data, b. service information including, but not limited to, occupancy, capacity, and special and ancillary services, c. physician profiles in the aggregate by clinical specialties and nursing services, d. discharge data including, but not limited to, completed discharge data sets or comparable information for each patient discharged from the facility after the effective date of this act, and e. ambulatory care data including, but not limited to, provider-specific and encounter data. 3. The Division shall implement a demonstration project for the voluntary submission of ambulatory care data including, but not limited to, submissions from federally qualified health centers, migrant health programs and rural health clinics as defined in Title 3 of the Federal Public Health Service Act (PL 104-299), and the Oklahoma Health Care Authority. The Division shall complete the demonstration project by January 1, 2002. 4. The Division shall establish a phase-in schedule for the collection of health care data. The phase-in schedule shall provide that prior to January 1, 1994, only data currently collected shall be required to be submitted to the Division. Thereafter, in the collection of health care data, the Division shall whenever possible utilize existing health data resources and avoid duplication in the collection of health care data. 5. Except as provided by Section 1-120 of this title and as otherwise authorized by the provisions of the Oklahoma Health Care Information System Act, the provisions of the Oklahoma Health Care Information System Act shall not be construed to lessen or reduce the responsibility of the information provider with regard to: a. the accuracy of the data or information submitted, b. liability for release of the data or information to the Division, data processor or as otherwise authorized by this section, or c. the preservation of confidentiality of such data or information until submitted to the Division. B. Upon the request of the State Department of Health, every state agency, board or commission shall provide the Division of Health Care Information with the health care data and other health care information requested at no charge to the Department or the Division. Except as otherwise provided by the Health Care Information System Act for the purpose of statistical and similar reports, information which is required by state or federal law to be confidential shall not be transferred to any entity by the Division unless a separate written agreement for such transfer has been executed with the state agency, board or commission providing the information to the Division.