135.154 - DEFINITIONS.
135.154 DEFINITIONS.
As used in this division, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Board" means the state board of health created pursuant
to section 136.1.
2. "Department" means the department of public health.
3. "Health care professional" means a person who is licensed,
certified, or otherwise authorized or permitted by the law of this
state to administer health care in the ordinary course of business or
in the practice of a profession.
4. "Health information technology" means the application of
information processing, involving both computer hardware and
software, that deals with the storage, retrieval, sharing, and use of
health care information, data, and knowledge for communication,
decision making, quality, safety, and efficiency of clinical
practice, and may include but is not limited to:
a. An electronic health record that electronically compiles
and maintains health information that may be derived from multiple
sources about the health status of an individual and may include a
core subset of each care delivery organization's electronic medical
record such as a continuity of care record or a continuity of care
document, computerized physician order entry, electronic prescribing,
or clinical decision support.
b. A personal health record through which an individual and
any other person authorized by the individual can maintain and manage
the individual's health information.
c. An electronic medical record that is used by health care
professionals to electronically document, monitor, and manage health
care delivery within a care delivery organization, is the legal
record of the patient's encounter with the care delivery
organization, and is owned by the care delivery organization.
d. A computerized provider order entry function that permits
the electronic ordering of diagnostic and treatment services,
including prescription drugs.
e. A decision support function to assist physicians and other
health care providers in making clinical decisions by providing
electronic alerts and reminders to improve compliance with best
practices, promote regular screenings and other preventive practices,
and facilitate diagnoses and treatments.
f. Tools to allow for the collection, analysis, and reporting
of information or data on adverse events, the quality and efficiency
of care, patient satisfaction, and other health care-related
performance measures.
5. "Interoperability" means the ability of two or more
systems or components to exchange information or data in an accurate,
effective, secure, and consistent manner and to use the information
or data that has been exchanged and includes but is not limited to:
a. The capacity to connect to a network for the purpose of
exchanging information or data with other users.
b. The ability of a connected, authenticated user to
demonstrate appropriate permissions to participate in the instant
transaction over the network.
c. The capacity of a connected, authenticated user to access,
transmit, receive, and exchange usable information with other users.
6. "Recognized interoperability standard" means
interoperability standards recognized by the office of the national
coordinator for health information technology of the United States
department of health and human services. Section History: Recent Form
2008 Acts, ch 1188, §23