Public Health Data Collection and Reporting in Kansas
Public Health Data Collection and Reporting in Kansas
| Subtopic | Statute/Regulation | Description |
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| Public Health Data Collection and Reporting | K.S.A. § 65-6801 | Healthcare database; legislative intent; use of information The law’s intent is to provide consumers, providers and health insurers with... |
| K.S.A. § 65-6805 | Same; medical, health care and other entities to file health care data; exception All medical facilities, health care providers, health care... |
| Public health reporting requirements | Kan. Admin. Regs. 28-4-601, Initial hearing screening test | Requires trained medical facility personnel to conduct newborn infant hearing screening in accordance with a protocol approved by the hearing... |
| Kan. Admin. Regs. § 28-1-18, Reporting and submission requirements for laboratories | Requires laboratories to report infectious and contagious diseases to the Secretary of Health and Environment via an automated, secure electronic... | |
| Kan. Admin. Regs. § 28-1-2, Reporting requirements for infectious or contagious diseases and conditions. | Requires health care professionals, social workers, and teachers or school administrators to report infectious and contagious diseases and conditions... | |
| Kan. Admin. Regs. § 28-1-4, Hospital reporting requirements | Specifies the information that hospital administrators must report to the Secretary of Health and Environment if the Secretary requests such... | |
| Kan. Admin. Regs. § 28-4-605, Reporting to the department | Requires hearing screening program managers and coordinators to report infant screening results, screening protocols, and changes to screening... | |
| Kan. Admin. Regs. § 28-4-611, Responsibilities of persons providing hearing screening after discharge | Identifies the responsibilities of persons who conduct infant screening after an infant’s discharge (e.g., reporting screening results to the... | |
| Kan. Admin. Regs. § 28-4-612, Responsibilities of persons providing audiologic assessment after discharge | Identifies the responsibilities of persons who conduct infant audiologic assessments after an infant’s discharge (e.g., reporting assessment... | |
| Kan. Admin. Regs. § 28-67-3, Health care data collection and submission | Establishes standards for collecting and submitting data to the health care database. Requires data to be collected from existing public and private... | |
| Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-153g, how reported | Requires physicians, when reporting births or stillbirths, to include a sheet that states whether the person who gave birth had a syphilis test... | |
| Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-1635a, Administration of vaccine | Authorizes pharmacists who complete a training course to administer vaccinations. Requires pharmacists to maintain immunization records and submit a... | |
| Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-6153, Emergency medical services data collection system | Requires the Emergency Medical Services Board to create a statewide data collection system and specifies the information that such system should... | |
| Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-67a05, transfers of tissue | Requires persons that transfer fetal tissue to annually report specified information to the Secretary of Health and Environment (e.g., transfer date... | |
| Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-6805, medical, health care and other entities to file health care data | Identifies the medical facilities and health care providers who must report data to the health care database (e.g., licensed medical facilities,... |
| Screenings for conditions if the results are required to be reported | Kan. Admin. Regs. 28-4-601, Initial hearing screening test | Requires trained medical facility personnel to conduct newborn infant hearing screening in accordance with a protocol approved by the hearing... |
| Kan. Admin. Regs. § 28-4-605, Reporting to the department | Requires hearing screening program managers and coordinators to report infant screening results, screening protocols, and changes to screening... | |
| Kan. Admin. Regs. § 28-4-611, Responsibilities of persons providing hearing screening after discharge | Identifies the responsibilities of persons who conduct infant screening after an infant’s discharge (e.g., reporting screening results to the... | |
| Kan. Admin. Regs. § 28-4-612, Responsibilities of persons providing audiologic assessment after discharge | Identifies the responsibilities of persons who conduct infant audiologic assessments after an infant’s discharge (e.g., reporting assessment... | |
| Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-1,157a, Newborn infant hearing screening | Requires infants to receive hearing tests within five days of their birth unless the birth parent(s) or guardian refuses to grant their informed... | |
| Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-153f, Prenatal serological tests for syphilis and hepatitis b | Requires physicians to obtain a blood sample from a pregnant person within 14 days of confirming their pregnancy for the purpose of conducting... |
| Disease specific reporting requirements: Communicable diseases/reportable diseases (as designated by each state) | Kan. Admin. Regs. § 28-1-18, Reporting and submission requirements for laboratories | Requires laboratories to report infectious and contagious diseases to the Secretary of Health and Environment via an automated, secure electronic... |
| Kan. Admin. Regs. § 28-1-2, Reporting requirements for infectious or contagious diseases and conditions. | Requires health care professionals, social workers, and teachers or school administrators to report infectious and contagious diseases and conditions... | |
| Kan. Admin. Regs. § 28-1-4, Hospital reporting requirements | Specifies the information that hospital administrators must report to the Secretary of Health and Environment if the Secretary requests such... | |
| Kan. Admin. Regs. § 28-34-18a, Obstetrical and newborn services | Establishes standards for hospital obstetrical and newborn services that address personnel, facilities and equipment, and procedures for care.... | |
| Kan. Admin. Regs. § 28-34-57, Medical records | Requires ambulatory surgical centers to maintain medical records for each patient and specifies the information that must be included in these... | |
| Kan. Admin. Regs. § 28-4-1308, Reporting requirements | Requires birth centers to report to the Department of Health and Environment stillbirths, patient or newborn deaths, deaths of employees during the... | |
| Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-118, Reporting to local health authority as to infectious or contagious diseases | Identifies the persons required to report known or suspected cases of infectious or contagious diseases (e.g., physicians, health care facility... | |
| Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-119, Duties and powers of local health officers | Requires local health officers and boards of health to supervise the response to any infectious or contagious disease cases that occur within their... |
| Disease specific reporting requirements: Abortion | Kan. Admin. Regs. § 28-56-2, General requirements for abortion reports. | Establishes abortion reporting requirements. Authorizes providers who perform less than five abortions per year to report via a paper form; otherwise... |
| Kan. Admin. Regs. § 28-56-3, Reporting requirements for abortions performed at clinical estimate of gestation of at least 22 weeks | Specifies the additional information that abortion providers must include when reporting abortions of fetuses that had reached 22 weeks or more of... | |
| Kan. Admin. Regs. § 28-56-4, Reporting requirements for partial birth abortions | Specifies the additional information that abortion providers must report when performing partial birth abortions (e.g., viability of the fetus,... | |
| Kan. Admin. Regs. § 28-56-5, Requirements for reporting failed abortions | Specifies the information that an abortion provider must report for failed abortions (e.g., certificate of live birth, the medical reason for not... | |
| Kan. Admin. Regs. § 28-56-6, Reporting requirements for abortions performed on minors in the case of a medical emergency | Specifies the information that abortion providers must include when reporting abortions on minors (e.g., the medical emergency that justified the... | |
| Kan. Admin. Regs. § 28-56-7, Physician's report on number of certifications received | Requires physicians who perform abortions to submit informed consent forms and a report on the number of certifications they’ve received to the... | |
| Kan. Admin. Regs. § 28-56-8, Late term affidavits | Requires the referring physician and the physician who performs an abortion to submit a late term affidavit to the Department of Health and... | |
| Kan. Admin. Regs. § 28-56-9, Correction in an abortion report | Requires abortion providers to correct abortion reports within 15 days of discovering that reported information is inaccurate or incomplete. Requires... | |
| Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-445, Termination of human pregnancy | Requires medical care facilities to maintain records of abortions performed at the facility and providers to maintain records of abortions they... | |
| Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-6703, Abortion when unborn child viable | Establishes standards and procedures for the abortion of viable fetuses. Requires a physician to refer the pregnant person to another physician to... | |
| Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-6721, Partial birth abortion | Establishes standards and procedures for performing partial birth abortions. Requires a physician to determine that a partial birth abortion is... | |
| Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-6724, certain abortions prohibited | Establishes standards and procedures for performing abortions on ‘pain-capable’ fetuses. Requires a physician to determine that the... |
| Public health Registries | Kan. Admin. Regs. § 28-67-2, Health care database | Identifies the health factors that the health care database must collect (e.g., mortality, health care costs, demographics, population-based health... |
| Kan. Admin. Regs. § 28-67-3, Health care data collection and submission | Establishes standards for collecting and submitting data to the health care database. Requires data to be collected from existing public and private... | |
| Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-1,169, collection of data | Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Environment to create a cancer registry and collect data for this registry. Requires the Secretary to adopt... | |
| Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-1,173, panel to establish policies for release of nonconfidential data; release of statistical data. | Requires the Secretary of Health and Environment to create a panel which will establish policies for releasing nonconfidential cancer registry data... | |
| Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-1683, required information to be submitted by dispenser | Requires the Board of Pharmacy to create a prescription monitoring program. Requires dispensers to electronically report information to the program... | |
| Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-180, Educational, screening, testing and follow-up program | Requires the Secretary of Health and Environment to establish an education program for health care providers regarding the detection of congenital... | |
| Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-3239, Establishing a statewide donor registry | Regulates the creation of a statewide organ and tissue donor registry. Prohibits organ and tissue donation organizations from obtaining registry... | |
| Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-6153, Emergency medical services data collection system | Requires the Emergency Medical Services Board to create a statewide data collection system and specifies the information that such system should... | |
| Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-6804, Health care database | Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Environment to contract with an entity to build and maintain a health care database. Requires the Secretary to... |
| Confidentiality of reported data (Cross reference Privacy & Confidentiality) | Kan. Admin. Regs. § 28-67-6, Confidentiality of the health care database | Prohibits disclosure of identifying information from the health care database. Permits researchers to obtain identifying information if they comply... |
| Kan. Admin. Regs. § 28-70-3, Use and access | Authorizes the cancer registry director to review provider and facility records in order to verify the accuracy and completeness of reported cancer... | |
| Kan. Admin. Regs. § 28-70-4, Confidential data for follow-up patient studies | Establishes standards and procedures for obtaining data for follow-up cancer studies. Requires researchers to submit research proposals to their... | |
| Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-1,116, Confidentiality of information | Classifies diabetes data obtained by the Secretary of Health and Environment as confidential. Permits disclosure with the written consent of the... | |
| Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-1,171, confidential data | Classifies cancer registry information as confidential and bars its discovery, subpoena, or access via Kansas’s open records act. Permits... | |
| Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-1,172, uses of confidential data. | Identifies the permissible uses for confidential cancer registry information (e.g., for investigating cancer clusters, for public health purposes,... | |
| Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-1,243, Confidentiality of records | Classifies birth defects information system information as confidential medical records. Prohibits subpoena or discovery of the records, but permits... | |
| Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-118, Reporting to local health authority as to infectious or contagious diseases | Identifies the persons required to report known or suspected cases of infectious or contagious diseases (e.g., physicians, health care facility... | |
| Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-119, Duties and powers of local health officers | Requires local health officers and boards of health to supervise the response to any infectious or contagious disease cases that occur within their... | |
| Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-16,104, confidential information; authorized access to data in the log | Classifies as confidential all information from the methamphetamine precursor recording log that is submitted to the Board of Pharmacy. Authorizes... | |
| Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-1685, database information privileged and confidential | Classifies information maintained in the prescription monitoring program database as confidential. Prohibits the subpoena or discovery of program... | |
| Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-3239, Establishing a statewide donor registry | Regulates the creation of a statewide organ and tissue donor registry. Prohibits organ and tissue donation organizations from obtaining registry... | |
| Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-445, Termination of human pregnancy | Requires medical care facilities to maintain records of abortions performed at the facility and providers to maintain records of abortions they... | |
| Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-6002, Reporting to secretary of health and environment information concerning AIDS or HIV infection | Requires physicians to report suspected cases of HIV/AIDS to the Secretary of Health and Environment. Requires physicians and medical facility... | |
| Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-6003, Investigation of cases of AIDS or HIV infection | Requires the Secretary of Health and Environment to investigate and monitor reported HIV/AIDS cases. Authorizes the Secretary to establish... | |
| Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-6155, disclosure of information | Grants immunity to ambulance service operators for any liability that may arise from reporting information to the Emergency Medical Services Board so... | |
| Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-67a05, transfers of tissue | Requires persons that transfer fetal tissue to annually report specified information to the Secretary of Health and Environment (e.g., transfer date... | |
| Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-6803, health care data policies and procedures | Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Environment to establish a task force to examine technical issues regarding health care data collection.... | |
| Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-6804, Health care database | Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Environment to contract with an entity to build and maintain a health care database. Requires the Secretary to... |
| Disease specific reporting requirements: Cancer | Kan. Admin. Regs. § 28-70-2, Reporting requirements | Requires administrators of hospitals, radiology oncology centers, pathology labs, and ambulatory surgical centers to report treated or diagnosed... |
| Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-1,169, collection of data | Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Environment to create a cancer registry and collect data for this registry. Requires the Secretary to adopt... | |
| Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-1,174, immunity from civil or criminal liability for reporting | Grants health care providers that report information to the cancer registry in good faith immunity from any liability that arises from their... |
| Other | Kan. Admin. Regs. § 28-70-3, Use and access | Authorizes the cancer registry director to review provider and facility records in order to verify the accuracy and completeness of reported cancer... |
| Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-1,115, Contract for health data and information relating to diabetes mellitus. | Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Environment to contract with organizations in order to obtain diabetes mellitus data and information. | |
| Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-1,159a, Senator Stan Clark pregnancy maintenance initiative program | Requires the Secretary of Health and Environment to create a pregnancy maintenance initiative that provides grants to non-profit organizations that... | |
| Kan. Stat. Ann. §39-968, Client assessment | Creates the Client Assessment, Referral and Evaluation (CARE) program as of means of collecting data and assessing long-term care needs. Requires the... |
| Violations of reporting requirements | Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-1,174, immunity from civil or criminal liability for reporting | Grants health care providers that report information to the cancer registry in good faith immunity from any liability that arises from their... |
| Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-16,107, penalties | Establishes liability for pharmacies that fail to report information to the methamphetamine precursor recording log and for persons who knowingly use... | |
| Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-1693, penalties | Establishes penalties for persons who knowingly fail to report information to the prescription monitoring program or improperly access, use,... | |
| Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-445, Termination of human pregnancy | Requires medical care facilities to maintain records of abortions performed at the facility and providers to maintain records of abortions they... | |
| Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-6002, Reporting to secretary of health and environment information concerning AIDS or HIV infection | Requires physicians to report suspected cases of HIV/AIDS to the Secretary of Health and Environment. Requires physicians and medical facility... | |
| Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-6005, Unlawful acts | Classifies violations of the chapter 60 HIV/AIDS laws and associated regulations as class C misdemeanors. Makes violations of the HIV/AIDS... | |
| Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-6155, disclosure of information | Grants immunity to ambulance service operators for any liability that may arise from reporting information to the Emergency Medical Services Board so... |
| Birth defects reporting requirements | Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-1,241, establishment of birth defects information system | Requires the Secretary of Health and Environment to create a birth defects information system to collect and house information regarding congenital... |
| Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-180, Educational, screening, testing and follow-up program | Requires the Secretary of Health and Environment to establish an education program for health care providers regarding the detection of congenital... |
| Disease specific reporting requirements: Birth defects | Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-1,241, establishment of birth defects information system | Requires the Secretary of Health and Environment to create a birth defects information system to collect and house information regarding congenital... |
| Disease specific reporting requirements: Congenital abnormalities | Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-1,241, establishment of birth defects information system | Requires the Secretary of Health and Environment to create a birth defects information system to collect and house information regarding congenital... |
| Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-180, Educational, screening, testing and follow-up program | Requires the Secretary of Health and Environment to establish an education program for health care providers regarding the detection of congenital... | |
| Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-183, Report by physicians to secretary. | Requires physicians to report congenital hypothyroidism, galactosemia, phenylketonuria, and other genetic diseases detected in infants to the... |
| Disease specific reporting requirements: Fetal deaths | Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-1,241, establishment of birth defects information system | Requires the Secretary of Health and Environment to create a birth defects information system to collect and house information regarding congenital... |
| Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-153g, how reported | Requires physicians, when reporting births or stillbirths, to include a sheet that states whether the person who gave birth had a syphilis test... |
| Disease specific reporting requirements: Other conditions designated by the state as required reporting | Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-153c, duty of physician and others | Requires physicians that detect swelling, redness, or discharge in an infant’s eyes to treat the symptoms. Requires persons that care for an... |
| Disease specific reporting requirements: STDs | Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-153f, Prenatal serological tests for syphilis and hepatitis b | Requires physicians to obtain a blood sample from a pregnant person within 14 days of confirming their pregnancy for the purpose of conducting... |
| Disease specific reporting requirements: AIDS/HIV | Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-6002, Reporting to secretary of health and environment information concerning AIDS or HIV infection | Requires physicians to report suspected cases of HIV/AIDS to the Secretary of Health and Environment. Requires physicians and medical facility... |
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