Section 135.156B. Iowa health information network — duties of the department.

  The department shall do all of the following:

  1.  Develop, implement, and enforce the following, as approved by the board:

  a.  Strategic, operational, and business and financial sustainability plans for the Iowa health information network.

  b.  Standards, requirements, policies, and procedures for access to and use, secondary use, and privacy and security of health information exchanged through the Iowa health information network, consistent with applicable federal and state standards and laws.

  c.  Rules, policies, and procedures for monitoring participant usage of the Iowa health information network and enforcing compliance with applicable standards, requirements, policies, rules, and procedures.

  d.  Policies and procedures for administering the infrastructure, technology, and associated professional services required for operation of the Iowa health information network and the provision of services through the Iowa health information network.

  e.  An annual budget and fiscal report for the business and technical operations of the Iowa health information network and an annual report for the Iowa health information network and the services provided through the Iowa health information network.

  2.  Provide human resources, budgeting, project and activity coordination, and related management functions to the Iowa health information network and the services provided through the Iowa health information network.

  3.  Enter into participation agreements with participants in the Iowa health information network.

  4.  Collect participant fees, record receipts and approvals of payments, and file required financial reports.

  5.  Apply for, acquire by gift or purchase, and hold, dispense, or dispose of funds and real or personal property from any person, governmental entity, or organization in the exercise of the department’s powers or performance of the department’s duties in accordance with this division.

  6.  Select and contract with vendors of goods and services in compliance with all applicable state and federal procurement laws and regulations.

  7.  Work to align interstate and intrastate interoperability standards in accordance with national health information exchange standards.

  8.  Execute all instruments necessary or incidental to the performance of the department’s duties and the execution of the department’s powers under this division.

2012 Acts, ch 1080, §11, 17

; 2013 Acts, ch 30, §31

For future repeal of this section upon assumption of administration and governance of the Iowa health information network by the designated entity; notice by Iowa department of public health to Code editor upon assumption by the designated entity, see 2015 Acts, ch 73, §8, 9