Washington Administrative Code › Title 246 - Health, Department of › HEALTH INFORMATION › Chapter 246-455 - Hospital patient discharge information reporting › Section 246-455-010 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
The definitions in this section apply throughout this
				  chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:
(1) "CHARS" means comprehensive hospital
				abstract reporting system.
(2)
				"
CHARS Companion Guide
" means the written technical guidelines
				for creating and submitting hospital patient discharge data from the hospital
				to the department or the department's designee as required for CHARS.
(3) "
CHARS Procedure Manual
"
				means the written instructions for reporting hospital discharge data to the
				department.
(4) "Custom data file"
				means a specialized patient discharge data file created and released by the
				department upon request of an individual. Custom data file does not mean
				standard data file.
(5) "Data"
				means a data file containing multiple patient discharge records submitted to
				the department as required for CHARS.
(6) "Data use agreement" means a signed
				agreement with the department for transmitting, receiving and using records
				containing individually identifiable or potentially identifiable health
				information. The agreement specifies, at a minimum, what information will be
				exchanged, the conditions or restrictions under which the information will be
				used and protected, restrictions on redisclosure of data and restrictions on
				attempts to locate information associated with a specific individual.
(7) "Department" means Washington state
				department of health.
(8)
				"Designee" means a private entity contracted by the department to perform data
				collection on behalf of the department as authorized by
				RCW
				 43.70.052(1).
(9) "Diagnosis-related groups (DRG)" is a
				classification system that groups hospital patients according to principal and
				secondary diagnosis, presence or absence of a surgical procedure, age, presence
				or absence of significant comorbidities or complications, and other relevant
				criteria.
(10) "Direct patient
				identifier" means information that identifies a patient.
(11) "Discharge data" means a collection of
				patient records in which each record represents a single patient discharged
				from the hospital following an inpatient or observation stay.
(12) "Government agencies" include state
				boards, commissions, committees, departments, educational institutions, or
				other state agencies which are created by or pursuant to statute, other than
				courts and the legislature; county or city agencies, federally recognized
				tribes and tribal organizations, and United States federal agencies.
(13) "Hospital" means any health care
				institution licensed under chapter 70.41 RCW or a psychiatric hospital licensed
				under chapter 71.12 RCW.
(14)
				"Human research review board" is the standing institutional review board
				operating under chapter 42.48 RCW.
(15) "Indirect patient identifier" means
				information that may identify a patient when combined with other
				information.
(16) "Office of
				Management and Budget" means a body within the Executive Office of the
				President of the United States which is tasked with coordinating United States
				Federal agencies and can be found at
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb
.
(17) "Patient discharge" means the
				termination of an in-patient admission or observation stay, including an
				admission as a result of a birth, in a Washington hospital.
(18) "Research" means a systematic
				investigation, including research development, testing, and evaluation,
				designed to develop or contribute to generalizable knowledge. Activities that
				meet this definition constitute research for purposes of this rule, whether or
				not they are conducted or supported under a program that is considered research
				for other purposes.
(19) "Standard
				data file" means the routine patient discharge data file created and released
				by the department, and does not mean custom data file.
(20) "State" means Washington state unless
				otherwise specified.
(21) "UB-04
				data set" means the uniform billing data element specifications developed by
				the National Uniform Billing Committee which can be found at
www.NUBC.org
.
Statutory Authority:
					 RCW
					  43.70.040 and
					 43.70.052. 07-09-091, §
					 246-455-010, filed 4/18/07, effective 5/23/07. Statutory Authority:
					 RCW
					  43.70.040 and [43.]70.170. 03-13-029, §
					 246-455-010, filed 6/10/03, effective 7/11/03. Statutory Authority:
					 RCW
					  43.70.040 and
					 chapter
					 70.170 RCW. 94-12-090,
					 § 246-455-010, filed 6/1/94, effective 7/2/94. Statutory Authority:
					 RCW
					  43.70.040. 91-02-049 (Order 121), recodified
					 as § 246-455-010, filed 12/27/90, effective 1/31/91. Statutory Authority:
					 RCW 70.39.180. 85-17-020 (Order 85-05, Resolution No. 85-05), §
					 261-50-020, filed 8/13/85. Statutory Authority: Chapter 70.39 RCW. 84-20-067
					 (Order 84-06, Resolution No. 84-06), § 261-50-020, filed
					 10/1/84.