Requiring and providing for the commissioner of health to work with local public health departments to develop a public health information network consistent with the recommendations, goals and strategies of the Minnesota public health network report to the legislature and the e-health initiative; requiring the commissioner to work with the commissioner of human services to determine ways to access and use clinical billing data from the medical assistance (MA) performance data reporting unit (warehouse) to assist with population health needs assessments and targeted prevention efforts, requiring the commissioner of health to incorporate findings into the development of the network and the e-health initiative, authorizing contracts
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