Section 128730 Of Part 5. Health Data From California Health And Safety Code >> Division 107. >> Part 5.
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. (a) Effective January 1, 1986, the office shall be the
single state agency designated to collect the following health
facility or clinic data for use by all state agencies:
(1) That data required by the office pursuant to Section 127285.
(2) That data required in the Medi-Cal cost reports pursuant to
Section 14170 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.
(3) Those data items formerly required by the California Health
Facilities Commission that are listed in Sections 128735 and 128740.
Information collected pursuant to subdivision (g) of Section 128735
and Sections 128736 and 128737 shall be made available to the State
Department of Health Care Services and the State Department of Public
Health. The departments shall ensure that the patient's rights to
confidentiality shall not be violated in any manner. The departments
shall comply with all applicable policies and requirements involving
review and oversight by the State Committee for the Protection of
Human Subjects.
(b) The office shall consolidate any and all of the reports listed
under this section or Sections 128735 and 128740, to the extent
feasible, to minimize the reporting burdens on hospitals, provided,
however, that the office shall neither add nor delete data items from
the Hospital Discharge Abstract Data Record or the quarterly reports
without prior authorizing legislation, unless specifically required
by federal law or regulation or judicial decision.