Section 127600 Of Chapter 3. Uniform Billing Format From California Health And Safety Code >> Division 107. >> Part 2. >> Chapter 3.
127600
. (a) The department, in consultation with the office and the
California Health Policy and Data Advisory Commission, may develop a
uniform core dataset for public health programs to do all of the
following:
(1) Reduce administrative complexity.
(2) Eliminate unnecessary duplication in the collection and
reporting of data.
(3) Facilitate integration, consistency, and transfer of data
among public health and health services programs.
(4) Promote monitoring of health status, planning, policy
development and service coordination, quality assurance, and program
evaluation for all public health programs.
(b) The department, in consultation with the office and the
California Health Policy and Data Advisory Commission, shall develop
proposed policies and procedures to ensure privacy and
confidentiality of data and appropriate use and access to data.
(c) This section shall not be construed to require any physician
and surgeon or other health care provider to provide any additional
items of information to these public health care programs.