2013 North Dakota Century Code Title 23 Health and Safety Chapter 23-01.1 Health Care Data Committee
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CHAPTER 23-01.1
HEALTH DATA COMMITTEE
[Repealed effective August 1, 2015, by S.L. 2013, ch. 207, § 6]
23-01.1-01. (Repealed effective August 1, 2015) Health data committee of state health
council - Membership - Appointment by chairman of health council.
The health data committee is a standing committee of the state health council, consisting of
not less than three nor more than five members, appointed by the chairman of the health council
from the members of the council. A majority of the members of the health data committee must
be consumer members of the health council.
23-01.1-02. (Repealed effective August 1, 2015) Powers of health data committee.
The health data committee may:
1. Collect, store, analyze, and provide health data.
2. Establish procedures that assure public availability of the information required to make
informed health decisions.
3. Establish arrangements with the state department of health, the department of human
services, the insurance commissioner, workforce safety and insurance, the public
employees retirement system, and other agencies to assure patient confidentiality, the
sharing of information, and the coordination, analysis, and dissemination of health
data, and to act in a manner which does not duplicate data collection activities of other
state agencies.
23-01.1-02.1. Publication of comparative physician fee information.
Repealed by S.L. 2013, ch. 207, § 5.
23-01.1-03. Publication of a directory of licensed physicians.
Repealed by S.L. 1991, ch. 262, § 4.
23-01.1-04. (Repealed effective August 1, 2015) Administrative authority of health data
committee - Administrative support - Authority to acquire data.
The health data committee may adopt rules consistent with and necessary for the
implementation of this chapter. The committee shall establish working arrangements among
other state agencies for the assurance of patient confidentiality, the sharing of information, and
the coordination, analysis, and dissemination of health data to the public and to the state
agencies. The committee may require insurers, nonprofit health service corporations, health
maintenance organizations, and state agencies to provide data regarding hospital, physician,
and other provider information and data as required for the performance of the duties of the
committee under this chapter.
23-01.1-05. (Repealed effective August 1, 2015) Confidentiality of certain records Immunity for providing information.
The committee shall keep all records, data, and information that could be used to identify
individual patients confidential. Reports for distribution by the committee or for publication must
be prepared in a manner to reasonably assure exclusion of information that would identify any
particular patient. Any person who provides information, data, reports, or records with respect to
any patient to the health care data committee under this chapter is immune from liability for the
act of furnishing the information.
23-01.1-06. (Repealed effective August 1, 2015) Fees for providing extraordinary data
or reports.
The state department of health may, by rule, set fees for recovering the reasonable costs of
providing data and reports, other than those set forth in this chapter, to any person. Revenues
derived from the fees must be deposited in the operating fund of the state department of health.
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23-01.1-07. (Repealed effective August 1, 2015) Civil penalty.
Any person violating this chapter or violating any rule adopted by the health data committee
is subject to a civil penalty not to exceed five hundred dollars per day of violation. The state
department of health with the assistance of the attorney general may prosecute an action in
district court to recover any civil penalty under this chapter.
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