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Medical Records Collection, Retention, and Access in Iowa

 

Medical Records Collection, Retention, and Access in Iowa

Subtopic Statute/Regulation Description
Right to access to medical records (Access by representative or other person authorized by the patient through informed consent; copying fees, or other requirements (e.g., requirement to give patient access in electronic format)) Access to Database Information, I.A.C. r. 657-37.4 Access to Database Information,    Classifies information and records submitted to and maintained by the Prescription Monitoring Program (...
Dispensing Records, I.A.C. r. 657-10.25 Dispensing Records   Requires pharmacies and health care providers registered to handle controlled substances to maintain records of ...
Engaging in an Open Discussion, Iowa Code § 135P.3 Engaging in Open Discussion   Permits health care providers and facilities to engage in an open discussion with a patient following an adverse...
Investigation of Reportable Diseases, I.A.C. r. 641-1.7 Investigation of reportable diseases.    Requires health care providers and clinical laboratories to assist in public health investigations...
Iowa Newborn Screening Program (INSP), I.A.C. r. 641-4.3 Iowa Newborn Screening Program (INSP)   Establishes standards and procedures for the Iowa newborn screening program. Requires all newborns in...
Opioid antagonist dispensing by pharmacist, I.A.C. r. 657-39.7 Opioid antagonist dispensing by pharmacist -- standing order.    Authorizes pharmacists that receive proper training to dispense opioid...
Record Keeping, I.A.C. r. 650-27.11 Record keeping    Establishes standards for the keeping of dental records that address record content, retention, correction, and...
Records storage, I.A.C. r. 657-8.9 Records Storage   Requires licensed Iowa pharmacies to maintain records for at least two years following the record date or last activity within...
Records, I.A.C. r. 657-10.36 Records.    Requires controlled substances records to be maintained for at least two years after the record date. Grants the Pharmacy Board...
Records, I.A.C. r. 657-7.13 Records   Requires hospital pharmacies to maintain records for at least two years following the last entry unless a longer time period is...
Content of medical record Collaborative Drug Therapy Management, I.A.C. § 657-39.13 Collaborative Drug Therapy Management   Authorizes pharmacists to provide collaborative drug therapy management pursuant to a written protocol....
Dispensing Records, I.A.C. r. 657-10.25 Dispensing Records   Requires pharmacies and health care providers registered to handle controlled substances to maintain records of ...
Exceptions to notification of parent, I.A.C. r. 641-89.22 Exceptions to notification of parent.    Specifies the circumstances in which a physician may perform an abortion procedure on a pregnant...
HIV testing, I.A.C. r. 641-11.4 HIV testing -- obtaining consent -- voluntary HIV-related tests for pregnant women.    Requires providers to include HIV testing when...
Infant Hearing Screening, Iowa Code § 135.131 Universal newborn and infant hearing screening.    Requires birthing hospitals to conduct newborn hearing screening before discharge and to...
Iowa Newborn Screening Program (INSP), I.A.C. r. 641-4.3 Iowa Newborn Screening Program (INSP)   Establishes standards and procedures for the Iowa newborn screening program. Requires all newborns in...
Mental Health Information Disclosure Prohibited Mental Health information Disclosure Prohibited -- exceptions -- record of disclosure.    Prohibits mental health professionals, mental...
Minimum standards of nursing practice for registered nurses, I.A.C. r. 655-6.2 Minimum standards of nursing practice for registered nurses.    Establishes standards for practice by registered nurses that address items...
Newborn Metabolic Screening, Iowa Code § 136A.5 Newborn Metabolic Screening   Requires all newborns to undergo congenital and inherited disorder screening in accordance with Department of...
Patient record system, I.A.C. r. 657-6.13 Patient record system.    Requires pharmacies to maintain a patient record system. Specifies the minimum content of records contained in...
Pharmacy Pseudoephedrine Sale, Iowa Code § 124.212A Pharmacy pseudoephedrine sale   Requires pharmacies to maintain records of pseudoephedrine sales in an electronic logbook. Recorded information...
Pregnant Minor Abortion Consultation, I.A.C. r. 641-89.12 Initial appointment of a pregnant minor with a licensed physician from whom an abortion is sought and certification procedure for the decision-making...
Record Keeping, I. A. C. r. 650-29.14 Record Keeping    Requires dentists to maintain sedation records. Establishes different standards for the content of these records based on...
Record Keeping, I.A.C. r. 650-27.11 Record keeping    Establishes standards for the keeping of dental records that address record content, retention, correction, and...
Records and Reports, I.A.C. r. 441-73.18 Records and reports   Requires managed care organizations that provide Medicaid services to maintain clinical records in compliance with state...
Records I.A.C. r. 441-81.9 Records.    Establishes record keeping requirements for nursing facilities that provide Medicaid services. These requirements address the...
Records, I.A.C. r. 657-7.13 Records   Requires hospital pharmacies to maintain records for at least two years following the last entry unless a longer time period is...
Reporting Hearing Screening Results, I.A.C. r. 641-3.9 Reporting hearing screening results and information to the department and child's primary care provider   Specifies the information that health...
Reports to Department, Iowa Code § 139A.3 Reports to Department -- immunity -- confidentiality -- investigations    Requires health care providers and facilities, upon treating a...
Responsibilities of Facilities, I.C.A. r. § 441-85.24 Responsibilities of Facilities   Requires psychiatric medical institutions for children to maintain medical records. Specifies the content of...
Voluntary Disclosures, Iowa Code § 228.3 Voluntary Disclosures    Permits individuals or their authorized representatives to consent to the disclosure of their mental health...
Required maintenance of medical records Community mental health centers, I.A.C. r. 441-78.16 Community mental health centers   States that Iowa’s Medicaid program will approve payments for reasonable and necessary services provided...
Electronic Health Record Incentive Program, I.A.C. r. 441-79.16 Electronic Health Record Incentive Program    States that the Department of Human Services has decided to participate in the federal EHR...
Health Home Services Providers, I.A.C. r. 441-77.47 Health Home Services Providers   Establishes qualifications for health home services providers’ participation in Iowa’s Medicaid...
Information Access, Iowa Code § 124.553 Information Access   Specifies the circumstances in which the Board of Pharmacy may disclose information from the drug prescribing and...
Maintenance of records, I.A.C. r. 441-79.3 Maintenance of records by providers of service   Requires Medicaid providers to maintain financial and medical records and to make these records...
Medication -- Administration, storage, and documentation, I.A.C. r. 441-24.40 Medication -- administration, storage and documentation   Establishes standards for administering, storing, and documenting medications to...
Participating Health and Dental Plans, I.A.C. r. 441-86.15 Participating Health and Dental Plans   Establishes requirements for health and dental plans that wish to participate in Iowa’s CHIP...
Patient Medication Records, Iowa Code § 155A.35 Patient medication records,    Requires pharmacies to maintain patient medication records.  
Patient record system, I.A.C. r. 657-6.13 Patient record system.    Requires pharmacies to maintain a patient record system. Specifies the minimum content of records contained in...
Pharmaceutical Case Management Services, I.A.C. r. 441-78.47 Pharmaceutical Case Management Services   Permits physicians and pharmacists to provide pharmaceutical case management services to Medicaid...
Pseudoephedrine sales -- tracking, penalty, Iowa Code § 124.212B Pseudoephedrine Sales -- tracking -- penalty    Requires the Governor’s Office of Drug Control Policy to maintain an electronic...
Record Keeping, I. A. C. r. 650-29.14 Record Keeping    Requires dentists to maintain sedation records. Establishes different standards for the content of these records based on...
Record Keeping, I.A.C. r. 650-27.11 Record keeping    Establishes standards for the keeping of dental records that address record content, retention, correction, and...
Records I.A.C. r. 441-81.9 Records.    Establishes record keeping requirements for nursing facilities that provide Medicaid services. These requirements address the...
Records of Registrants, § 124.306 Records of Registrants   Requires persons that manufacture, dispense, or administer controlled substances to maintain records in accordance with...
Responsibilities of Facilities, I.C.A. r. § 441-85.24 Responsibilities of Facilities   Requires psychiatric medical institutions for children to maintain medical records. Specifies the content of...
Responsibilities of Hospitals, I.A.C. r. 441-85.6 Responsibilities of Hospitals   Requires psychiatric hospitals that provide Medicaid services to maintain medical and fiscal records. Specifies...
Screening Centers, I.A.C. r. 441-78.18 Screening Centers   States the circumstances in which Iowa’s Medicaid program will approve payments to screening centers. Requires...
Standards of Practice -- Office Practices, I.A.C. r. 653-13.7 Standards of Practice -- office practices Establishes standards of practice for licensed Iowa physicians. Requires physicians to maintain the...
Standards of Practice -- prescription drugs dispensed by physician, I.A.C. r. 653-13.1 Standards of practice -- packaging, labeling, and records of prescription drugs dispensed by a physician.    Establishes standards for...
Standards of Practice -- Telemedicine, I.A.C. r. 653-13.11 Standards of Practice -- Telemedicine   Permits Iowa physicians to provide telemedicine services in compliance with the standards in this rule....
Standards of practice- Appropriate Pain Management, I.A.C. § 653-13.2 Standards of Practice - appropriate pain management   Establishes standards of practice for pain management treatment that seek to balance the...
Retention periods Continuous Quality Improvement Program, I.A.C. r. 657-8.26 Continuous quality improvement program    Requires pharmacies to establish a continuous quality improvement program as a means of...
Dispensing Records, I.A.C. r. 657-10.25 Dispensing Records   Requires pharmacies and health care providers registered to handle controlled substances to maintain records of ...
Electronic Prescription Applications, I.A.C. r. 657-6.21 Electronic Prescription Applications   Authorizes pharmacies to use electronic prescription applications so long at the applications have...
Information Access, Iowa Code § 124.553 Information Access   Specifies the circumstances in which the Board of Pharmacy may disclose information from the drug prescribing and...
Opioid antagonist dispensing by pharmacist, I.A.C. r. 657-39.7 Opioid antagonist dispensing by pharmacist -- standing order.    Authorizes pharmacists that receive proper training to dispense opioid...
Patient record system, I.A.C. r. 657-6.13 Patient record system.    Requires pharmacies to maintain a patient record system. Specifies the minimum content of records contained in...
PMP Information Retained, I.A.C. r. 657-37.6 PMP Information Retained.    Requires pharmacies to retain records of information submitted to the Prescription Monitoring Program for four...
Records I.A.C. r. 441-81.9 Records.    Establishes record keeping requirements for nursing facilities that provide Medicaid services. These requirements address the...
Records of Registrants, § 124.306 Records of Registrants   Requires persons that manufacture, dispense, or administer controlled substances to maintain records in accordance with...
Records storage, I.A.C. r. 657-8.9 Records Storage   Requires licensed Iowa pharmacies to maintain records for at least two years following the record date or last activity within...
Records, I.A.C. r. 657-10.36 Records.    Requires controlled substances records to be maintained for at least two years after the record date. Grants the Pharmacy Board...
Records, I.A.C. r. 657-6.16 Records.    Requires pharmacies to maintain records for at least two years following the record date. Permits pharmacies to keep records...
Records, I.A.C. r. 657-7.13 Records   Requires hospital pharmacies to maintain records for at least two years following the last entry unless a longer time period is...
Standards of Practice -- Office Practices, I.A.C. r. 653-13.7 Standards of Practice -- office practices Establishes standards of practice for licensed Iowa physicians. Requires physicians to maintain the...
Transfer of Prescription, I.A.C. r. 657-6.9 Transfer of Prescription   Establishes procedures for transferring prescriptions to a new pharmacy upon the request a of patient or their...
Controlled substances records Dispensing Records, I.A.C. r. 657-10.25 Dispensing Records   Requires pharmacies and health care providers registered to handle controlled substances to maintain records of ...
Opioid antagonist dispensing by pharmacist, I.A.C. r. 657-39.7 Opioid antagonist dispensing by pharmacist -- standing order.    Authorizes pharmacists that receive proper training to dispense opioid...
Records of Registrants, § 124.306 Records of Registrants   Requires persons that manufacture, dispense, or administer controlled substances to maintain records in accordance with...
Records, I.A.C. r. 657-10.36 Records.    Requires controlled substances records to be maintained for at least two years after the record date. Grants the Pharmacy Board...
Records, I.A.C. r. 657-6.16 Records.    Requires pharmacies to maintain records for at least two years following the record date. Permits pharmacies to keep records...
Medical Records Collection, Retention, and Access Iowa Admin. Code 653-13.7 Standards of Practice; office practice A physician can chose his or her patients, but must not neglect the patient once a relationship has been...