New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 7 - HEALTH
Chapter 5 - VACCINATIONS AND IMMUNIZATIONS
Part 5 - NEW MEXICO STATEWIDE IMMUNIZATION REGISTRY
Section 7.5.5.7 - DEFINITIONS
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 6, March 26, 2024
A. "Authorized user" means a person to whom the division has provided account credentials authorizing that person to access to the registry.
B. "CDC" means centers for disease control and prevention, the federal agency responsible for monitoring and protecting the United States of America from health, safety, and security threats related to diseases.
C. "Data elements" means the information required to be entered into the registry by providers as specified in these regulations or by official division publication.
D. "Department" means the department of health.
E. "Division" means the department of health, public health division.
F. "Government issued identification" means a legible, current credentialing document issued by a local, state or federal government entity that includes a photo.
G. "Health information exchange" means an arrangement that allows the sharing of health care information about individual patients among different health care institutions or unaffiliated providers.
H. "Immunization" means treatment of an individual with either a vaccine licensed by the U.S. food and drug administration for immunization and distribution in the United States, or an immune globulin product licensed by the U.S. food and drug administration and used for the purposes of producing or enhancing an immune response.
I. "NDC" means National Drug Code.
J. "NMDOH" means the New Mexico department of health.
K. "NMSIIS" means the New Mexico statewide immunization information system.
L. "Provider" means an individual or organization required to submit information to the registry pursuant to Section 24-5-8 NMSA 1978 including physicians, nurses, pharmacists, nurse practitioners, physician's assistants and other health care providers authorized by the division.
M. "Patient" means any person offered an immunization.
N. "Registry" means the New Mexico statewide immunization information system (NMSIIS), a computerized repository of immunization information maintained by the New Mexico department of health.
O. "Vaccines for children program" or "VFC" means the program operated by the division that provides federally funded vaccines to children ages 0-18 years who are uninsured, on medicaid, or are Alaska Native/American Indian.
