New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 3 - THE NEW JERSEY IMMUNIZATION INFORMATION SYSTEM (NJIIS) › Section 8:57-3.3 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms, as used in this subchapter, shall
				  have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
"Administrator" means the individual interested in enrolling his
				  or her eligible entity in the NJIIS as an NJIIS site.
"Authorized user" means any health care provider, child care
				  center, school, college or university, health benefits plan, billing and practice
				  management vendor, State public health or social services program, local health
				  agency or designated agents thereof, authorized pursuant to
				  26:4-134(c) and (g)
				  and 8:57-3.9 to submit information to,
				  receive information from, or access or review information contained in the
				  NJIIS.
"Billing vendor" means an entity that a health care provider or
				  health care practice contracts with in order to prepare invoices, claims, or
				  statements of services performed by the provider or practice and submit them to a
				  third party for payment or reimbursement.
"Biological" means a medicinal compound prepared from living
				  organisms and their products, such as Hepatitis B Immune Globulin (HBIG), which is
				  routinely administered shortly after birth to a newborn of a mother diagnosed with
				  infectious hepatitis B virus to prevent the transmission of the virus to the
				  newborn.
"Birth center" shall have the meaning provided at
				  8:43G-19.1(b).
"Birthing facility" means a health care facility that provides
				  birthing and newborn care services and includes birth centers.
"Collaborating public health programs" means those programs within
				  the Department who have written agreements to exchange health screening and
				  immunization data with the NJIIS, consistent with the stated purposes of this
				  chapter.
"College" shall have the meaning provided at
				  9A:1-1.2.
"Designated agent" means a person to whom a site administrator has
				  delegated responsibilities pursuant to
				  8:57-3.8(b)  to submit
				  information to, receive information from, or access or review information contained
				  in the NJIIS.
"Electronic birth certificate" or "EBC" shall have the meaning
				  provided at 8:19-1.1.
"Health benefits plan" means an insurance company, a health
				  maintenance organization, or another organization that pays or reimburses a provider
				  for immunizations administered and includes Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare.
"Health care provider" means a health care facility licensed
				  pursuant to 26:2H-12 or a health care professional
				  who is directly involved in the provision of healthcare services and whose practice
				  is regulated pursuant to Title 45 of the New Jersey Statutes and State professional
				  board rules, who in the course and scope of work duties, independently or under the
				  supervision of the appropriate authority, administers vaccinations.
"Health employer data information set" or "HEDIS" means the
				  measurement tool created by the National Committee for Quality Assurance to collect
				  data about the quality of care and services provided by health plans.
1. HEDIS is available for purchase through the National Committee
				  for Quality Assurance, 2000 L St. NW, Suite 500, Washington, DC 20036, telephone
				  (888) 275-7585 or (202) 955-3500 or online at
				  https://inetshop01.pub.ncqa.org/Publications/default.asp.
"Local health agency" shall have the meaning provided at
				  8:52-2.1.
"Local Information Network and Communications System" or "LINCS"
				  shall have the meaning provided at N.J.A.C. 8:52-2.1.
"Maternal and Child Health Consortia" or "MCHC" shall have the
				  meaning provided at
				  8:33C-1.2.
"Minor" means a person that is under the age of 18.
"Newborn" means a child from birth up to and including 30 days of
				  age.
"NJ FamilyCare Program" shall have the meaning provided at
				  10:49-1.3.
"NJ Medicaid Program" means the health insurance program
				  administered by the Division of Medical Assistance and Health Services in the
				  Department of Human Services that provides medical assistance to certain persons
				  with low income and limited resources as authorized under Title XIX (Medicaid) of
				  the Social Security Act.
"NJIIS" means the New Jersey Immunization Information System
				  operated by the Vaccine Preventable Disease Program within the Department's Public
				  Health Service Branch, Communicable Disease Service and established pursuant to
				  26:4-131 et seq. and this
				  subchapter.
"NJIIS immunization record" means a paper or electronic copy of a
				  registrant's immunization and preventive health screening information, that is a
				  true and accurate representation of the information contained in the NJIIS and which
				  is not a part of a child's educational record.
"NJIIS site" means an entity, such as a health care provider,
				  child care center, school, college or university, health benefits plan, billing and
				  practice management vendor, State public health program, State or county social
				  services program, or local health agency that has enrolled with the NJIIS as an
				  authorized user pursuant to
				  8:57-3.8(a).
"NJIIS webpage" means the webpage of the NJIIS available at
http://njiis.nj.gov/njiis
.
"Parent" means a person with legal custody of a child and includes
				  a child's biological parent, stepparent, adoptive parent, legal guardian, or other
				  person legally responsible for the health and well-being of a child.
"Practice management vendor" means a company that develops and
				  sells information technology electronic applications or software, which primarily
				  focuses on patient medical records.
"Primary health care provider" means a health care provider that
				  supervises, coordinates, and provides basic medical care for a registrant and
				  maintains continuity of care.
"Registrant" means an individual whose demographic, immunization,
				  and preventive health screening information is entered into the NJIIS.
"Responsible person" means an owner, chief executive officer, or
				  other similarly identified person of an NJIIS site who possesses the authority to
				  bind the site legally to the provisions of the User Confidentiality Agreement,
				  available at subchapter Appendix C.
"Site administrator" means the person at an NJIIS site assigned to
				  coordinate the NJIIS onsite and accept official documents regarding the
				  NJIIS.
"Tracking and reminder or recall module" means the subsystem
				  within the NJIIS designed to prompt an authorized user with access to this module,
				  that has elected to use this module, to perform outreach to a parent of a minor
				  registrant, or a registrant if 18 years of age or over, to foster the completion of
				  an immunization series or the conduct of preventive health screenings in a timely
				  manner.
"University" shall have the meaning provided at
				  9A:1-1.2.
"Vaccine" means an agent composed of biologically-derived and
				  manufactured substances, which is licensed to be administered to persons in order to
				  actively evoke an immune response to prevent serious illnesses associated with
				  specific pathogens.
"Vaccines for Children Program" or "VFC" means the Federally
				  funded and State-controlled program that provides free vaccines for eligible
				  children 0 through 18 years of age, established pursuant to
				  42 U.S.C. §
										1396s and operated through the Department's
				  Vaccine Preventable Disease Program.
"VPDP" means the Vaccine Preventable Disease Program within the
				  Department responsible for administering and overseeing the operations of the
				  NJIIS.
"VPDP mailing address" means the following address for the
				  Department's Vaccine Preventable Disease Program to which anyone may mail a written
				  request for information pertaining to the NJIIS: Department of Health and Senior
				  Services, New Jersey Immunization Information System, Vaccine Preventable Disease
				  Program, PO Box 369, Trenton, NJ 08625-0369.
The
				  adopted version of this section 56 N.J.R. 213(a), effective
				  1/3/2024 is not yet
				  available