SF 1112 Senate Long Description
Modifying certain health data collection requirements and rulemaking +authority and establishing an adverse health care events reporting system ARTICLE 1 � DATA COLLECTION Authorizing the commissioner of health to collect encounter level +data on certain medical conditions for cost containment purposes and +prohibiting the collection of encounter level data in individually identifiable form +on certain other conditions; modifying certain commissioner data analysis +requirements; creating a privacy oversight panel to determine compliance with +certain data collection initiatives and to approve certain rules, specifying +membership requirements; extending certain rulemaking authority of the +commissioner for rules modification purposes ARTICLE 2 � ADVERSE EVENT REPORTING"Minnesota Adverse Health Care Events Reporting Act of 2003"; +requiring and providing for the commissioner of health to establish a reporting +system for adverse health care events in licensed hospitals and health care +facilities to facilitate quality improvement in the health care system, specifying +certain system content requirements; imposing certain adverse health care +events reporting requirements on the licensed facilities and specifying the +reportable surgical, product or device, patient protection, care management, +environmental and criminal events; specifying certain root cause analysis and +corrective action plan implementation and certain commissioner report analysis +and communication requirements; requiring the commissioner to design the +system for electronic reporting; specifying the relation of the events to +certain other reporting laws for reporting requirements purposes; authorizing +certain sanctions for failure to comply with system requirements; classifying+ data on individuals maintained in the system; requiring the commissioner to +report certain information to the national quality forum and to other +states, requiring monitoring of discussions of amendments to the list of +reportable events and reporting of modifications to the legislature (ra)