The division for records and statistics within the department shall establish and maintain a system of health personnel statistics which shall include the collection, preservation, revision and dissemination of statistical data to enable the department or other agencies concerned with delivery of health care services in this state to determine the total number, employment status, location of practice or place of employment, areas of professional specialization and ages of licensed health care practitioners and other pertinent information bearing on the availability of trained and licensed personnel in health care fields to provide services in this state. The statistical data shall be computed and available upon request at least biannually in the form of a report to agencies, both public and private, which are concerned with the delivery of health care in this state.
The department shall enter into co-operative arrangements with and seek the technical expertise of agencies collecting and producing health personnel statistics in order to eliminate duplication in the collection of health personnel information and to assist in the standardization and co-ordination of procedures relating to the collection of health personnel statistics.
Examining boards collecting information necessary for the division for records and statistics to carry out the provisions of this section shall provide the department with the information which may be gathered by means including, but not limited to, questionnaires forwarded to applicants for a license or renewal of a license.
In addition to any other fee provided by law, a fee may be set by the respective examining boards for each license and renewal of a license to practice a profession, which fee shall be based on the annual cost of collecting information for use by the department in the administration of the system of health personnel statistics established by this section. The fee shall be collected, transmitted to the treasurer of state and deposited in the general fund of the state in the manner in which license and renewal fees of the respective professions are collected, transmitted, and deposited in the general fund.
[C75, 77, 79, 81, § 147.25]
84 Acts, ch 1075, § 10; 85 Acts, ch 168, §6; 88 Acts, ch 1225, §9
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