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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="13-4306" title_number="13" title_name="Miscellaneous Health Care Programs" subtitle_number="43" subtitle_name="Maryland Commission on Health Equity">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Commission shall, in coordination with the Department, the Health Services Cost Review Commission, and the State designated health information exchange, establish an advisory committee to make recommendations on data collection, needs, quality, reporting, evaluation, and visualization for the Commission to carry out the purposes of this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The advisory committee shall include representatives from the State designated health information exchange.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The advisory committee shall define the parameters of a health equity data set to be maintained by the State designated health information exchange, including indicators for:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Social and economic conditions;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Environmental conditions;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Health status;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>Behaviors;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>Health care; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>Priority health outcomes for monitoring health equity for racial and ethnic minority populations in the State.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The data set for which parameters are defined under paragraph (3) of this subsection shall include data from:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Health care facilities that report to the Health Services Cost Review Commission;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Health care payers that report to the Maryland Health Care Commission; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Any other data source the advisory committee determines necessary.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Data shall be reported in the aggregate if it is reported:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>To the public; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>From the State designated health information exchange to the Commission.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>If the advisory committee makes a recommendation that data be made available to the public, the recommendation shall comply with applicable federal and State privacy law.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Commission may request data consistent with the recommendations of the advisory committee.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Data requested by the Commission under paragraph (1) of this subsection shall be provided, to the extent authorized by federal and State privacy law, to:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The Commission; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The State designated exchange.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Commission may publish or provide to the public any data collected under this section consistent with the recommendations of the advisory committee established under subsection (a) of this section.</text>
  </level>
</section>
