House File 32 - Introduced HOUSE FILE 32 BY PETTENGILL and JONES A BILL FOR An Act relating to health data collected and used by the 1 department of public health. 2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 3 TLSB 1407YH (5) 87 pf/nh
H.F. 32 Section 1. Section 135.166, Code 2017, is amended to read 1 as follows: 2 135.166 Health care data —— collection and use —— collection 3 from hospitals. 4 1. a. The department of public health shall enter into 5 a memorandum of understanding to utilize the Iowa hospital 6 association to act as the department’s intermediary in 7 collecting, maintaining, and disseminating hospital inpatient, 8 outpatient, and ambulatory information data , as initially 9 authorized in 1996 Iowa Acts, ch. 1212, §5, subsection 1, 10 paragraph “a” , subparagraph (4), and 641 IAC 177.3. 11 2. b. The memorandum of understanding shall include but 12 is not limited to provisions that address the duties of the 13 department and the Iowa hospital association regarding the 14 collection, reporting, disclosure, storage, and confidentiality 15 of the data. 16 2. Unless otherwise authorized or required by state 17 or federal law, data collected under this section shall 18 not include personally identifiable information about the 19 individual subject of the data, including but not limited to 20 the individual’s name, date of birth, and social security 21 number. For the purposes of this subsection, “personally 22 identifiable information” means any item, collection, or 23 grouping of data which allows the individual subject of the 24 data to be identified. 25 EXPLANATION 26 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 27 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 28 This bill relates to health data collected and used by the 29 department of public health. 30 The bill amends Code section 135.166 to provide that unless 31 otherwise authorized by state or federal law, data collected 32 under Code section 135.166 shall not include personally 33 identifiable information about the individual subject of the 34 data, including but not limited to the individual’s name, 35 -1- LSB 1407YH (5) 87 pf/nh 1/ 2
H.F. 32 date of birth, and social security number. The bill defines 1 “personally identifiable information” as any item, collection, 2 or grouping of data which allows the individual subject of the 3 data to be identified. 4 -2- LSB 1407YH (5) 87 pf/nh 2/ 2