144C.3  Community health management information system established--data repository.

1.  A community health management information system is established and shall be organized as a nonprofit corporation pursuant to chapter 504A. The system shall operate subject to the control and direction of the community health management information system governing board.

2.  A data repository is established which is subject to the control and direction of the board. The data repository shall collect health care data and provide patients, physicians, hospitals, purchasers, payors, government agencies, and researchers with information on which to base decisions on the quality, effectiveness, and appropriateness of care.

Section History: Recent form

  94 Acts, ch 1033, §4

Internal References

  Referred to in § 144C.7


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