Nebraska Administrative Code
Topic - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES SYSTEM
Title 173 - CONTROL OF COMMUNICABLE DISEASE
Chapter 9 - ELECTRONIC REPORTING OF ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD DATA FOR PUBLIC HEALTH SYNDROMIC SURVEILLANCE
Section 173-9-002 - DEFINITIONS

002.01 ACUTE CARE ENCOUNTER. A patient seen in a hospital emergency department or urgent care facility.

002.02 BATCH MESSAGE FILE. The transmission of a file containing multiple discrete standard electronic messages to the Department from the hospital data system on a periodic basis less than real time.

002.03 DATA ENCRYPTION. The electronic obfuscation of data within an electronic message using industry standard practices for encryption.

002.04 DE-IDENTIFIED PATIENT DATA. Electronic health record information that does not identify an individual and to which there is no reasonable basis to believe that the information can be used to identify an individual.

002.05 ACUTE CARE ENCOUNTER STANDARD MESSAGE. A standard electronic message as specified in the most current version of the Syndromic Surveillance Event Detection of Nebraska (SSEDON) Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance Health Level 7 Implementation Guide.

002.06 HEALTH CARE FACILITY. Any facility licensed under the Health Care Facility Licensure Act, and such additional clinics or facilities not licensed under that act, such as Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), primary care clinics, ambulatory care clinics, and outpatient surgical centers.

002.07 HOSPITAL. A hospital licensed by the Department pursuant to Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71401 et seq., including critical access hospitals and general acute hospitals as defined by Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 71-419, 71-409, and 71-412.

002.08 PUBLIC HEALTH AUTHORITY. An agency or authority of the United States, a state, a territory, a political subdivision of a state or territory, or an Indian tribe, or a person or entity acting under a grant of authority from or contract with such public agency, including the employees or agents of such public agency or its contractors or persons or entities to whom it has granted authority, that is responsible for public health matters as part of its official mandate.

002.09 REAL TIME MESSAGE. The transmission of discrete standard electronic messages to the Department as they are generated by the hospital data system.

002.10 SECURE MESSAGE TRANSPORT PROTOCOL. A method of sending electronic data to the Department in a way that prevents unauthorized access to the data as specified by the Department.