Privacy and Confidentiality in Iowa
Privacy and Confidentiality in Iowa
| Subtopic | Statute/Regulation | Description |
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| Disclosure requirements (what providers can disclose, prohibition on further disclosure) | Access to Database Information and Confidentiality, I.A.C. r. 657-100.4 | Access to database information and confidentiality Classifies Electronic Pseudoephedrine Tracking System (PTS) information as... |
| 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 (... | |
| Child vision screening reporting, I.A.C. r. 641-52.7 | Child vision screening reporting Requires providers to report child vision screening results to the Department of Public Health. Results must... | |
| Confidential Information, I.A.C. r. 657-8.16 | Confidential Information Specifies the circumstances in which pharmacies may release confidential information (e.g., with a patient... | |
| Confidentiality of Information, Iowa Code § 141A.9 | Confidentiality of Information Classifies information maintained or obtained in compliance with Iowa’s HIV/AIDs law as confidential and... | |
| Confidentiality, I.A.C. r. 641-1.17 | Confidentiality Classifies disease reports obtained or maintained by the Department of Public Health that include identifying... | |
| Confidentiality, I.A.C. r. 641-21.6 | Confidentiality Classifies brain and spinal cord injury registry information as confidential. Specifies the circumstances in which such... | |
| 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... | |
| Iowa Child Vision Screening Database, I.A.C. r. 641-52.9 | Iowa's child vision screening database module and follow-up. Authorizes the Department of Public Health to create a vision screening... | |
| Iowa Dental Screening Database, I.A.C. r. 641-51.13 | Iowa's dental screening database Authorizes the Department of Public Health to create a dental screening database as a means of enforcing... | |
| Iowa Maternal Prenatal Screening Program (IMPSP), I.A.C. r. 641-4.4 | Iowa maternal prenatal screening program (IMPSP) Establishes standards and procures for the Iowa maternal prenatal screening program. Requires... | |
| Medical Records to be Confidential -- exceptions, Iowa Code § 229.25 | Medical records to be confidential -- exceptions. Classifies medical records related to an individual’s involuntary... | |
| Mental Health Information Disclosure Prohibited | Mental Health information Disclosure Prohibited -- exceptions -- record of disclosure. Prohibits mental health professionals, mental... | |
| 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... | |
| Pharmacy Pseudoephedrine Sale, Iowa Code § 124.212A | Pharmacy pseudoephedrine sale Requires pharmacies to maintain records of pseudoephedrine sales in an electronic logbook. Recorded information... | |
| 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... | |
| Records and Reports, I.A.C. r. 441-88.9 | Records and Reports, Requires Prepaid Health Organizations (PHPs) to comply with the Medicaid records standards codified in Iowa Admin.... | |
| Records Confidential, Iowa Code § 125.37 | Records Confidential Classifies records maintained by facilities that provide substance use disorder treatment as confidential and... | |
| Release of Dental Screening information, I.A.C. § 641-51.14 | Release of Dental Screening Information Requires dentists, dental hygienists, and other health care providers to release dental screening... | |
| Sharing of Information and Confidentiality, I.A.C. r. 641-3.12 | Sharing of information and confidentiality Classifies information and records regarding the newborn hearing screening program as confidential... | |
| Statewide Registry, I.A.C. r. 641-7.8 | Statewide registry Requires the Department of Public Health to establish a statewide immunization and health screening registry that... | |
| Trauma Registry, I.A.C. r. 641-136.2 | Trauma registry Requires trauma care facilities to report patient data to the Department of Public Health. Identifies reportable data as that... | |
| Voluntary Disclosures, Iowa Code § 228.3 | Voluntary Disclosures Permits individuals or their authorized representatives to consent to the disclosure of their mental health... |
| Confidentiality of medical records | Analyses and studies by department, Iowa Code, § 135.76 | Analyses and Studies Department Requires the Department of Public Health to periodically analyze and study health care costs and to... |
| Annual Reports by Hospitals, Health Care Facilities, Iowa Code § 135.75 | Annual reports by hospitals, health care facilities Requires hospitals and health care facilities to annually report financial information (e.... | |
| Applications for insurance -- HIV test restrictions, Iowa Code § 505.16 | Applications for insurance -- HIV tests -- restrictions Prohibits health insurance carriers from requiring insurance applicants to... | |
| 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... | |
| Confidentiality of records, Iowa Code § 217.30 | Confidentiality of records -- report of recipients. Specifies the information regarding Department of Human Services program... | |
| 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... | |
| Iowa Health Information Network -- Infrastructure Requirements, Iowa Code § 135D.4 | Iowa Health Information Netowrk --principles-- technical infrastructure requirements Establishes principles of the Iowa Health... | |
| Liability and Confidentiality, Iowa Code § 135D.7 | Legal and policy -- liability -- confidentiality Requires the Iowa Health Information Network Board to implement privacy and security... | |
| Medical Records to be Confidential -- exceptions, Iowa Code § 229.25 | Medical records to be confidential -- exceptions. Classifies medical records related to an individual’s involuntary... | |
| 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... | |
| Prohibited acts -- penalties, Iowa Code § 124.558 | Prohibited Acts -- penalties. Subjects pharmacies, pharmacists, and prescribing practitioners to disciplinary proceedings if they fail... | |
| 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... | |
| Reports to Department, Iowa Code § 139A.3 | Reports to Department -- immunity -- confidentiality -- investigations Requires health care providers and facilities, upon treating a... | |
| 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.... | |
| Vision Screening, I.C.A. § 135.39D | Vision Screening Requires children to receive vision screening at least once before enrolling in kindergarten and again before beginning third... |
| Confidentiality and disclosure requirements of public health reporting information (disease specific information/registry data) (Cross reference to Public Health Reporting) | Central registry for brain or spinal cord injuries, Iowa Code § 135.22 | Central registry for brain or spinal cord injuries. Requires the Director of Public Health to establish a central registry for brain and... |
| Quality Assurance, I.A.C. 641-21.7 | Quality Assurance Requires hospitals to allow the Department of Health to inspect medical records related to the brain and spinal cord injury... |
| Confidentiality of registry data | Central registry for brain or spinal cord injuries, Iowa Code § 135.22 | Central registry for brain or spinal cord injuries. Requires the Director of Public Health to establish a central registry for brain and... |
| Confidential Reports, Iowa Code, § 139A.30 | Confidential Reports, Classifies STD reports and related information received by the Department of Public Health as confidential and... | |
| Confidentiality of Information, Iowa Code § 141A.9 | Confidentiality of Information Classifies information maintained or obtained in compliance with Iowa’s HIV/AIDs law as confidential and... | |
| Confidentiality, I.A.C. r. 641-1.17 | Confidentiality Classifies disease reports obtained or maintained by the Department of Public Health that include identifying... | |
| Confidentiality, I.A.C. r. 641-146.5 | Confidentiality Requires the statewide stroke database to comply with state and federal health data confidentiality laws. | |
| Confidentiality, I.A.C. r. 641-21.6 | Confidentiality Classifies brain and spinal cord injury registry information as confidential. Specifies the circumstances in which such... | |
| Confidentiality, Iowa Code § 136A.7 | Confidentiality Requires the Department of Public health to maintain the confidentiality of identifying information collected as part of... | |
| Iowa Child Vision Screening Database, I.A.C. r. 641-52.9 | Iowa's child vision screening database module and follow-up. Authorizes the Department of Public Health to create a vision screening... | |
| Iowa Dental Screening Database, I.A.C. r. 641-51.13 | Iowa's dental screening database Authorizes the Department of Public Health to create a dental screening database as a means of enforcing... | |
| Iowa Maternal Prenatal Screening Program (IMPSP), I.A.C. r. 641-4.4 | Iowa maternal prenatal screening program (IMPSP) Establishes standards and procures for the Iowa maternal prenatal screening program. Requires... | |
| Patient Confidentiality, I.A.C. r. 641-177.6 | Patient Confidentiality Requires the Department of Public Health to maintain patient confidentiality when collecting health data for public... | |
| Report to Department, Iowa Code § 139A.31 | Report to Department, Requires providers that treat a person with an STD to report specified information (e.g., name, race and ethnicity... | |
| Sharing of Information and Confidentiality, I.A.C. r. 641-3.12 | Sharing of information and confidentiality Classifies information and records regarding the newborn hearing screening program as confidential... | |
| Statewide Registry, I.A.C. r. 641-7.8 | Statewide registry Requires the Department of Public Health to establish a statewide immunization and health screening registry that... | |
| Stroke Care, Iowa Code § 135.191 | Stroke Care -- continuous quality improvement. Requires the Department of Public Health to maintain a statewide stroke database.... | |
| Trauma Registry, I.A.C. r. 641-136.2 | Trauma registry Requires trauma care facilities to report patient data to the Department of Public Health. Identifies reportable data as that... | |
| Trauma Registry, Iowa Code § 147A.26 | Trauma Registry Requires the Department of Public Health to establish a trauma reporting system. Classifies the collected data as confidential... |
| Disclosure of medical information for research purposes (Cross reference Research) | Central registry for brain or spinal cord injuries, Iowa Code § 135.22 | Central registry for brain or spinal cord injuries. Requires the Director of Public Health to establish a central registry for brain and... |
| Medical Records to be Confidential -- exceptions, Iowa Code § 229.25 | Medical records to be confidential -- exceptions. Classifies medical records related to an individual’s involuntary... | |
| Records Confidential, Iowa Code § 125.37 | Records Confidential Classifies records maintained by facilities that provide substance use disorder treatment as confidential and... | |
| Trauma Registry, I.A.C. r. 641-136.2 | Trauma registry Requires trauma care facilities to report patient data to the Department of Public Health. Identifies reportable data as that... | |
| Unlawful use, Iowa Code § 135.42 | Unlawful use Prohibits the use of information collected for morbidity and mortality research, or the results thereof, from being used in legal... |
| Confidentiality of substance abuse records | Commitment Records -- confidentiality, Iowa Code § 125.93 | Commitment Records -- confidentiality Classifies records regarding substance abuse treatment services as confidential in accordance with... |
| Iowa Admin. Code 641-155.21 | ||
| Iowa Admin. Code 641-155.35, Standards for Opioid Treatment Programs | ||
| Iowa Admin. Code 641-156.3, General standards | ||
| Iowa Admin. Code 641-157.6, Confidentiality |
| Confidentiality and disclosure requirements of peer review information (Cross reference to Medical Peer Review) | Confidentiality, I. A. C. r. 641-138.7 | Confidentiality Classifies trauma care data collected by the Department of Public Health as confidential. Classifies trauma system... |
| Disclosures for claims administration and peer review, Iowa Code § 228.7 | Disclosures for claims administration and peer review -- safeguards -- penalty. Permits the disclosure of an individual’s mental... |
| Privacy and Confidentiality | Disclosure of Mental Health and Psychological Information - Iowa Code § 228.2 et seq. | Records and information relating to the mental health of an individual are confidential and privileged to the patient, and may only be disclosed in... |
| I.C.A. § 147.55 | Grounds Iowa authorizes the discipline of licensed health care providers (e.g. physicians, surgeons, psychologists, and dentists) that, among other... | |
| 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... | |
| Iowa Admin. Code 653-23.1 | Grounds for Discipline Iowa establishes numerous grounds for physician and acupuncturist discipline including professional incompetence,... | |
| Iowa Admin. Code r. 641-155.25(12) | Specific standards for assessment and evaluation programs Substance abuse treatment programs must have written policies that ensure that substance... | |
| Iowa Code § 125.37 | Records confidential All substance abuse treatment records are confidential and privileged to the patient and may only be disclosed according to the... |
| Violations of confidentiality; penalties | Filing false reports, Iowa Code § 139A.40 | Filing false reports. Establishes liability for persons that file false STD reports or disclose a reported person’s identity.... |
| Prohibited acts -- penalties, Iowa Code § 124.558 | Prohibited Acts -- penalties. Subjects pharmacies, pharmacists, and prescribing practitioners to disciplinary proceedings if they fail... | |
| Remedies, Iowa Code § 141A.11 | Remedies Establishes a civil cause of action for persons harmed by violations of Iowa’s HIV/AIDS law. Subjects persons that... |
| Disclosure of health information pursuant to court order or subpoena | 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... |
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