The Department of Health shall coordinate the establishment and maintain oversight of a comprehensive health data system for the purposes of: (1) Health care planning, policy development, policy evaluation, and research by federal, state, and local governments; (2) Monitoring payments for health services by the federal and state governments; (3) Assessing and improving the quality of health care; (4) Measuring and optimizing access to health care; (5) Supporting public health functions and objectives; (6) Improving the ability of health plans, health care providers, and consumers to coordinate, improve, and make choices about health care; and (7) Monitoring costs at provider and plan levels.
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