1. a. The department shall enter into a memorandum of understanding with the contractor selected through a request for proposals process to act as the department’s intermediary in collecting, maintaining, and disseminating hospital inpatient, outpatient, and ambulatory data, as initiallyauthorized in 1996 Iowa Acts, ch. 1212, §5, subsection 1, paragraph “a”, subparagraph (4), and 641 IAC 177.3. b. The memorandum of understanding shall include but is not limited to provisions that address the duties of the department and the contractor regarding the collection, reporting, disclosure, storage, and confidentiality of the data. 2. Unless otherwise authorized or required by state or federal law, data collected under thissection shall not include the social security number or name of the individual subject of the data. §96; 2022 Acts, ch 1131, §61; 2023 Acts, ch 19, §154
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