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Public Health Data Collection and Reporting in Iowa

 

Public Health Data Collection and Reporting in Iowa

Subtopic Statute/Regulation Description
Public health Registries 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...
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...
Central Registry, Iowa Code § 136A.6 Central Registry    Requires the Center for Congenital and Inherited Disorders to create a central registry that compiles relevant data on...
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...
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...
Information program for drug prescribing and dispensing, Iowa Code § 124.551 Information program for drug prescribing and dispensing    Requires the Board of Pharmacy, subject to available funding, to establish a...
Information Reporting, Iowa Code § 124.552 Information Reporting   Specifies the information that pharmacies that dispense controlled substances must report to the Pharmacy Board’s...
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...
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...
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...
Disease specific reporting requirements: Cancer Cancer, I.A.C. r. 641-1.14 Cancer   Requires health care providers and facilities to report treated or diagnosed cancers to the State Health Registry to whom the...
Disease specific reporting requirements: Congenital abnormalities Central Registry, Iowa Code § 136A.6 Central Registry    Requires the Center for Congenital and Inherited Disorders to create a central registry that compiles relevant data on...
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...
Public health reporting requirements 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...
Description of data to be submitted, I.A.C. r. 641-177.3 Description of data to be submitted   Requires the Department of Public health to collect health data from state agencies for public release....
Electronic pseudoephedrine tracking sytem (PTS), I.A.C. r. 657-100.3 Electronic pseudoephedrine tracking system (PTS)   Requires pharmacies that dispense nonprescription pseudoephedrine to report these sales to...
Examination results from laboratory -- report, Iowa Code § 139A.32 Examination results from laboratory -- report   Requires clinical laboratories to report positive STD exam results to the Department of Public...
Immunization of Children, Iowa Code § 139A.8 Immunization of Children    Specifies the immunizations children must receive prior to enrolling in school (e.g., rubeola, pertussis, etc...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Reporting of adverse occurrences, I.A.C. r. 650-29.9 Reporting of adverse occurrences related to sedation, nitrous oxide inhalation analgesia, and antianxiety premedication.    Requires...
Reports to Department, Iowa Code § 139A.3 Reports to Department -- immunity -- confidentiality -- investigations    Requires health care providers and facilities, upon treating a...
Requirements for the PMP, I.A.C. r. 657-37.3 Requirements for the PMP   Requires pharmacies to report records of reportable prescriptions to Iowa’s Prescription Monitoring Program....
Stroke Care Reporting, I.A.C. r. 641-146.3 Stroke care reporting   Requires certified comprehensive stroke centers and certified primary stroke centers operating in Iowa to report data to...
Vaccine Administration by Pharmacists, I.A.C. § 657-39.10 Vaccine Administration by Pharmacists,    Permits licensed pharmacists that comply with training and continuing education requirements to...
Screenings for conditions if the results are required to be reported 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...
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...
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...
Disease specific reporting requirements: Abortion Determination of Postfertilization Age, Iowa Code §146B.2 Determination of postfertilization age -- certain abortions prohibited.    Requires physicians to determine the post fertilization age of...
Disease specific reporting requirements: STDs Examination results from laboratory -- report, Iowa Code § 139A.32 Examination results from laboratory -- report   Requires clinical laboratories to report positive STD exam results to the Department of Public...
Disease specific reporting requirements: AIDS/HIV HIV-related consent, testing, and reporting, Iowa Code § 141A.6 HIV - related conditions -- consent, testing, and reporting -- penalty.    Requires health care providers to obtain a person’s...
Reporting of diagnoses and HIV-related tests, I.A.C. r. 641-11.6 Reporting of diagnoses and HIV-related tests, events, and conditions to the department,    Requires health care providers to report to the...
Disease specific reporting requirements: Other conditions designated by the state as required reporting Method and frequency of reporting, I.A.C. r. 641-21.5 Method and frequency of reporting   Requires hospitals to report brain injuries and spinal cord injuries at least 45 days following the end of...
Reporting poisonings and conditions, I.A.C. r. 641-1.6 Reporting poisonings and conditions   Identifies the persons and entities (e.g., physicians, clinical laboratories, etc.) required to report...
Stroke Care Reporting, I.A.C. r. 641-146.3 Stroke care reporting   Requires certified comprehensive stroke centers and certified primary stroke centers operating in Iowa to report data to...
Who reports and under what circumstances, I.A.C. r. 641-21.4 Who reports and under what circumstances   Requires hospitals that treat or declare dead persons with a reportable brain or spinal cord injury...
Confidentiality of reported data (Cross reference Privacy & Confidentiality) 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...
Disease specific reporting requirements: Communicable diseases/reportable diseases (as designated by each state) Reporting of communicable and infectious disease, I.A.C. r. 641-1.4 Reporting of reportable communicable and infectious diseases.    Identifies the persons and entities (e.g., physicians, clinical...
Blood lead reporting requirements Reporting poisonings and conditions, I.A.C. r. 641-1.6 Reporting poisonings and conditions   Identifies the persons and entities (e.g., physicians, clinical laboratories, etc.) required to report...
Disease specific reporting requirements: Lead poisoning Reporting poisonings and conditions, I.A.C. r. 641-1.6 Reporting poisonings and conditions   Identifies the persons and entities (e.g., physicians, clinical laboratories, etc.) required to report...