Oklahoma Administrative Code › Title 310 - Oklahoma State Department of Health › Chapter 9 - Health Care Information › Subchapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 310:9-1-2 - Definitions

Current through Vol. 41, No. 20, July 1, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this Chapter,
				  shall have the following meaning, unless the context clearly indicates
				  otherwise:
"Ambulatory care data"
means data elements
				  required by the Department regarding persons treated by hospitals,
				  free-standing ambulatory surgery centers, or other health care providers, for
				  less than 24 hours.
"Ambulatory surgery center"
means a
				  hospital-based or free- standing center providing surgery with patient stays of
				  less than 24 hours, licensed under 63 O.S. Section 2657 et seq.
"Custom Data Set"
means a subset of the Public
				  Use Data File developed by the Department on special request.
"Custom report"
means a compilation or study
				  developed by the Department on special request.
"Data element"
means the specific information
				  collected and recorded for the purpose of health care and health care service
				  delivery. Data elements include information to identify the individual, the
				  health care provider, the data supplier, the services provided, charges for
				  service, payor source, medical diagnosis, medical treatment and other data as
				  requested.
"Data file"
means an electronic file containing
				  data elements.
"Data submission manual
" means a manual
				  developed by the Department containing data elements required to be submitted
				  by information providers.
"Data use agreement"
means a document that must
				  be submitted in order to obtain the public use data file or any anonymous
				  patient- level data. The document assures the Department that the user will not
				  attempt to identify or contact any person included in the data set.
"Department"
means the Oklahoma State Department
				  of Health.
"Direct Patient Identifiers"
Data elements that
				  directly identify a patient (e.g. name, SSN, etc).
"Division"
means the Health Care Information
				  Division of the Oklahoma State Department of Health.
"Facility"
means hospital or ambulatory surgery
				  center.
"Health care information system"
means the
				  system for receipt, collection, analysis, evaluation, processing, utilization
				  and dissemination of health care data established and maintained by the Health
				  Care Information Division pursuant to the Oklahoma Health Care Information
				  System Act.
"Health care provider"
means hospitals, nursing
				  facilities, ambulatory surgery centers, and any other health care provider
				  licensed or certified by the Department or any other state agency; doctors as
				  defined in Section
				  725.2 of Title 59 of the Oklahoma
				  Statutes; or physical therapists, physician assistants, pharmacists, nurses and
				  home health care providers licensed pursuant to the laws of this state.
"Hospital"
means a hospital licensed under 63
				  O.S. Section 1-704.
"Hospital discharge data"
means data elements
				  required by the Department regarding persons admitted to and discharged from a
				  hospital.
"Identifying information"
means information that
				  could uniquely identify an individual.
"Information provider"
means all health care
				  providers and the third-party payor or public-supported provider as defined in
				  Section 1-116 of Title 63 of the Oklahoma
				  Statutes.
"Public use data file"
means an electronic file
				  for public use containing data elements from the hospital discharge or
				  ambulatory surgery data file that do not directly or indirectly identify an
				  individual or physician.
"Standard information provider report"
means a
				  compilation of data submitted by an information provider that is generated by
				  the Division for the information provider.
"Standard report"
means a compilation or study
				  developed to display information on selected topics, published
				  periodically.
"Third-party payor"
means any entity, other than
				  a purchaser, which is responsible for payment either to the purchaser or the
				  health care provider for health care services rendered by the health care
				  provider.
Added at 16 Ok Reg 2451,
				  eff 6-25-99; Amended at 18 Ok Reg 2472, eff
				  6-25-01