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        135.154  DEFINITIONS.
         As used in this division, unless the context otherwise requires:
         1.  "Board" means the state board of health created pursuant
      to section 136.1.
         2.  "Department" means the department of public health.
         3.  "Health care professional" means a person who is licensed,
      certified, or otherwise authorized or permitted by the law of this
      state to administer health care in the ordinary course of business or
      in the practice of a profession.
         4.  "Health information technology" means the application of
      information processing, involving both computer hardware and
      software, that deals with the storage, retrieval, sharing, and use of
      health care information, data, and knowledge for communication,
      decision making, quality, safety, and efficiency of clinical
      practice, and may include but is not limited to:
         a.  An electronic health record that electronically compiles
      and maintains health information that may be derived from multiple
      sources about the health status of an individual and may include a
      core subset of each care delivery organization's electronic medical
      record such as a continuity of care record or a continuity of care
      document, computerized physician order entry, electronic prescribing,
      or clinical decision support.
         b.  A personal health record through which an individual and
      any other person authorized by the individual can maintain and manage
      the individual's health information.
         c.  An electronic medical record that is used by health care
      professionals to electronically document, monitor, and manage health
      care delivery within a care delivery organization, is the legal
      record of the patient's encounter with the care delivery
      organization, and is owned by the care delivery organization.
         d.  A computerized provider order entry function that permits
      the electronic ordering of diagnostic and treatment services,
      including prescription drugs.
         e.  A decision support function to assist physicians and other
      health care providers in making clinical decisions by providing
      electronic alerts and reminders to improve compliance with best
      practices, promote regular screenings and other preventive practices,
      and facilitate diagnoses and treatments.
         f.  Tools to allow for the collection, analysis, and reporting
      of information or data on adverse events, the quality and efficiency
      of care, patient satisfaction, and other health care-related
      performance measures.
         5.  "Interoperability" means the ability of two or more
      systems or components to exchange information or data in an accurate,
      effective, secure, and consistent manner and to use the information
      or data that has been exchanged and includes but is not limited to:
         a.  The capacity to connect to a network for the purpose of
      exchanging information or data with other users.
         b.  The ability of a connected, authenticated user to
      demonstrate appropriate permissions to participate in the instant
      transaction over the network.
         c.  The capacity of a connected, authenticated user to access,
      transmit, receive, and exchange usable information with other users.

         6.  "Recognized interoperability standard" means
      interoperability standards recognized by the office of the national
      coordinator for health information technology of the United States
      department of health and human services.  
         Section History: Recent Form
         2008 Acts, ch 1188, §23

State Codes and Statutes

Statutes > Iowa > Title-4 > Subtitle-2 > Chapter-135 > 135-154

        135.154  DEFINITIONS.
         As used in this division, unless the context otherwise requires:
         1.  "Board" means the state board of health created pursuant
      to section 136.1.
         2.  "Department" means the department of public health.
         3.  "Health care professional" means a person who is licensed,
      certified, or otherwise authorized or permitted by the law of this
      state to administer health care in the ordinary course of business or
      in the practice of a profession.
         4.  "Health information technology" means the application of
      information processing, involving both computer hardware and
      software, that deals with the storage, retrieval, sharing, and use of
      health care information, data, and knowledge for communication,
      decision making, quality, safety, and efficiency of clinical
      practice, and may include but is not limited to:
         a.  An electronic health record that electronically compiles
      and maintains health information that may be derived from multiple
      sources about the health status of an individual and may include a
      core subset of each care delivery organization's electronic medical
      record such as a continuity of care record or a continuity of care
      document, computerized physician order entry, electronic prescribing,
      or clinical decision support.
         b.  A personal health record through which an individual and
      any other person authorized by the individual can maintain and manage
      the individual's health information.
         c.  An electronic medical record that is used by health care
      professionals to electronically document, monitor, and manage health
      care delivery within a care delivery organization, is the legal
      record of the patient's encounter with the care delivery
      organization, and is owned by the care delivery organization.
         d.  A computerized provider order entry function that permits
      the electronic ordering of diagnostic and treatment services,
      including prescription drugs.
         e.  A decision support function to assist physicians and other
      health care providers in making clinical decisions by providing
      electronic alerts and reminders to improve compliance with best
      practices, promote regular screenings and other preventive practices,
      and facilitate diagnoses and treatments.
         f.  Tools to allow for the collection, analysis, and reporting
      of information or data on adverse events, the quality and efficiency
      of care, patient satisfaction, and other health care-related
      performance measures.
         5.  "Interoperability" means the ability of two or more
      systems or components to exchange information or data in an accurate,
      effective, secure, and consistent manner and to use the information
      or data that has been exchanged and includes but is not limited to:
         a.  The capacity to connect to a network for the purpose of
      exchanging information or data with other users.
         b.  The ability of a connected, authenticated user to
      demonstrate appropriate permissions to participate in the instant
      transaction over the network.
         c.  The capacity of a connected, authenticated user to access,
      transmit, receive, and exchange usable information with other users.

         6.  "Recognized interoperability standard" means
      interoperability standards recognized by the office of the national
      coordinator for health information technology of the United States
      department of health and human services.  
         Section History: Recent Form
         2008 Acts, ch 1188, §23

State Codes and Statutes

State Codes and Statutes

Statutes > Iowa > Title-4 > Subtitle-2 > Chapter-135 > 135-154

        135.154  DEFINITIONS.
         As used in this division, unless the context otherwise requires:
         1.  "Board" means the state board of health created pursuant
      to section 136.1.
         2.  "Department" means the department of public health.
         3.  "Health care professional" means a person who is licensed,
      certified, or otherwise authorized or permitted by the law of this
      state to administer health care in the ordinary course of business or
      in the practice of a profession.
         4.  "Health information technology" means the application of
      information processing, involving both computer hardware and
      software, that deals with the storage, retrieval, sharing, and use of
      health care information, data, and knowledge for communication,
      decision making, quality, safety, and efficiency of clinical
      practice, and may include but is not limited to:
         a.  An electronic health record that electronically compiles
      and maintains health information that may be derived from multiple
      sources about the health status of an individual and may include a
      core subset of each care delivery organization's electronic medical
      record such as a continuity of care record or a continuity of care
      document, computerized physician order entry, electronic prescribing,
      or clinical decision support.
         b.  A personal health record through which an individual and
      any other person authorized by the individual can maintain and manage
      the individual's health information.
         c.  An electronic medical record that is used by health care
      professionals to electronically document, monitor, and manage health
      care delivery within a care delivery organization, is the legal
      record of the patient's encounter with the care delivery
      organization, and is owned by the care delivery organization.
         d.  A computerized provider order entry function that permits
      the electronic ordering of diagnostic and treatment services,
      including prescription drugs.
         e.  A decision support function to assist physicians and other
      health care providers in making clinical decisions by providing
      electronic alerts and reminders to improve compliance with best
      practices, promote regular screenings and other preventive practices,
      and facilitate diagnoses and treatments.
         f.  Tools to allow for the collection, analysis, and reporting
      of information or data on adverse events, the quality and efficiency
      of care, patient satisfaction, and other health care-related
      performance measures.
         5.  "Interoperability" means the ability of two or more
      systems or components to exchange information or data in an accurate,
      effective, secure, and consistent manner and to use the information
      or data that has been exchanged and includes but is not limited to:
         a.  The capacity to connect to a network for the purpose of
      exchanging information or data with other users.
         b.  The ability of a connected, authenticated user to
      demonstrate appropriate permissions to participate in the instant
      transaction over the network.
         c.  The capacity of a connected, authenticated user to access,
      transmit, receive, and exchange usable information with other users.

         6.  "Recognized interoperability standard" means
      interoperability standards recognized by the office of the national
      coordinator for health information technology of the United States
      department of health and human services.  
         Section History: Recent Form
         2008 Acts, ch 1188, §23