(15) In addition, for purposes of this rule:
(a) "Blood and plasma center" is defined as a
blood bank, blood storage facility, plasma center, hospital, any facility where
blood or blood products are collected, or any facility where blood services are
provided.
(b) "Care facilities
licensed through the Department of Health and Human Services" is described as
any facility licensed through the Department of Health and Human Services, and
includes adult day care facilities, adult foster care facilities, crisis
respite facilities, domestic violence shelters and treatment programs, foster
care homes, mental health treatment programs, residential treatment and day
treatment facilities for persons with disabilities, substance abuse treatment
programs, and youth treatment programs.
(c) "Case" is defined as any person, living
or deceased, identified as having a communicable disease, condition, or
syndrome that meets criteria for being reportable under this rule, or that is
otherwise under public health investigation.
(d) "Clinic" is defined as any facility where
a health care provider practices.
(e) "Condition" is defined as an abnormal
state of health that may interfere with a person's regular feelings of
wellbeing.
(f) "Correctional
facility" is defined as a facility that forcibly confines an individual under
the authority of the government, including prisons, detention centers, jails,
juvenile detention centers.
(g)
"Department" is defined as the Utah Department of Health and Human
Services.
(h) "Diagnostic facility"
is defined as the facility where the case or suspect case was seen and
evaluated by a healthcare provider.
(i) "Dispensary" is defined as an office in a
school, hospital, industrial plant, or other organization that dispenses
medications or medical supplies.
(j) "Electronic case reporting" is defined as
the transmission of clinical, diagnostic, laboratory, and treatment related
data from reporting entities to the Department in a structured,
computer-readable format that reflects comparable content to HL7 CDA(reg
trademark) R2 Implementation Guide: Public Health Case Report, Release 2 - US
Realm - the Electronic Initial Case Report (eICR). Electronic Initial Case
Reporting is a form of electronic reporting.
(k) "Electronic laboratory reporting" is
defined as the transmission of laboratory or health related data from reporting
entities to the Department using HL7 ORU-R01 2.3.1 or 2.5.1, LOINC, and SNOMED
standard message structure and vocabulary. Electronic laboratory reporting is a
form of electronic reporting.
(l)
"Electronic reporting" is defined as the transmission of laboratory or health
related data from reporting entities to the Department in a structured,
computer-readable format that reflects comparable content to HL7
messaging.
(m) "Encounter" is
defined as an instance of an individual presenting to a health care
facility.
(n) "Event" is defined as
any communicable disease, condition, laboratory result, syndrome, outbreak,
epidemic, or other public health hazard that meets criteria for being
reportable under this rule.
(o)
"Good Samaritan" is defined as a person who gives reasonable aid to strangers
in grave physical distress.
(p)
"Invasive disease" is defined as infection occurring in parts of the body where
organisms are not normally present, such as the bloodstream, organs, or the
meninges.
(q) "Laboratory" is
defined as any facility that receives, refers, or analyzes clinical
specimens.
(r) "Manual reporting"
is defined as the transmission of laboratory or health related data from
reporting entities to the Department using processes that require hand keying
for data to be incorporated into Department databases.
(s) "Normally sterile site" is defined as a
part of the body where organisms are not normally present, such as the
bloodstream, organs, or the meninges.
(t) "Outbreak" is defined as the increased
occurrence of any communicable disease, health condition, or syndrome in a
community, institution, or region; or two or more cases of a communicable
disease, health condition, or syndrome in persons with a common
exposure.
(u) "Public health
hazard" is defined as the presence of an infectious organism or condition in
the environment that endangers the health of a specified population.
(v) "Suspect case" is defined as any person,
living or deceased, who a reporting entity, local health department, or the
Department believes might be a case, but for whom it has not been established
that the criteria necessary to become a case have been met.
(w) "SARS-CoV-2 NAAT" is any SARS-CoV-2
Nucleic Acid Amplification Test (NAAT) conducted in a facility certified under
CLIA to perform moderate- or high-complexity tests.
(x) "Syndrome" is defined as a set of signs
or symptoms that often occur together.
