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Public Health Data Collection and Reporting in Oregon

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        Oregon requires various health care facilities to comply with reporting requirements related to public health issues.  A health care provider required to report reportable diseases must submit to the local public health administrator a report including identifying information about the person affected or ill, the diagnosed or suspected disease, infection, or condition, and the date of illness onset; licensed laboratories required to report reportable diseases must submit a report including identifying information about the person from whom the specimen was obtained and the test result.1  Providers participating in the Family Planning Expansion Program must agree to report STI’s to appropriate agencies for contact management, prevention and control.2  If a person charged or sentenced for a crime has a reportable disease, law enforcement personnel must disclose this information to public health authorities.3  Each induced termination of pregnancy or abortion that occurs within the state must be reported to the Center for Health Statistics.4

        The law requires disease- and injury-specific reporting for childhood diabetes,5 tuberculosis,6 PKU,7 cancer and benign tumors,8 and disorders of the nervous system,9 among others.  In furtherance of these reporting requirements, the state has created several reporting registries.  The Oregon Health Authority has established a database used to collect information regarding juvenile diabetes as well as to make data available for scientific and medical research.10  The state of Oregon has established a statewide registry system for collecting information on incidences of cancer and benign tumors.11  An Oregon Trauma Registry exists for hospitals to report required data for relevant patients.12  For purposes of preventing and treating certain diseases and disorders, the Oregon Health Authority maintains a newborn hearing screening test registry,13 to which birthing and screening facilities must report hearing screening test results.14  Additionally, the Oregon Health Authority maintains an immunization registry,15 to which pharmacists and providers must report the administration of vaccines.16

 

Footnotes

  • 1. Or. Admin. R. 333-018-0010
  • 2. Or. Admin. R. 333-004-0060
  • 3. Or. Rev. Stat. §433.009
  • 4. Or. Rev. Stat. §435.496
  • 5. Or. Rev. Stat. § 444.320
  • 6. Or. Rev. Stat. §437.010
  • 7. Or. Rev. Stat. § 433.295
  • 8. Or. Rev. Stat. § 432.520
  • 9. Or. Admin. R. 333-013-0100
  • 10. Or. Rev. Stat. § 444.300
  • 11. Or. Rev. Stat. § 432.510
  • 12. Or. Admin. R. 333-200-0090
  • 13. Or. Rev. Stat. §433.323
  • 14. Or. Admin. R. 333-020-0147
  • 15. Or. Rev. Stat. § 433.094
  • 16. Or. Admin. R. 333-049-0050

 

Public Health Data Collection and Reporting in Oregon

Subtopic Statute/Regulation Description
Public health reporting requirements Or. Admin. R. 333-049-0100 - Confidentiality Personal identifying information from the immunization registry may only be disclosed to authorized users.  Any request for limitations on the...
Or. Admin. R. 333-003-0050 - Access to Individually Identifiable Health Information During a declared public health emergency, the Public Health Director and local public health administrators will have immediate access to...
Or. Admin. R. 333-010-0020 - Reporting Requirements for Cancer Reporting Facilities All cancer reporting facilities must report to the central cancer registry each case and required data items of reportable cancer in patients...
Or. Admin. R. 333-010-0030 - Reporting Requirements for Health Care Providers Practitioners must report diagnoses of cancer to the central cancer registry within 180 days of diagnosis. The provider must report the patient...
Or. Admin. R. 333-011-0315 - Disposition of Reports of Induced Termination of Pregnancy Reports of induced termination of pregnancy are statistical reports only and may not be incorporated into the official records of the vital...
Or. Admin. R. 333-018-0130 - HAI Public Disclosure The Office for Oregon Health Policy and Research must disclose updated facility- and state-level health care acquired infection (HAI) rates to the...
Or. Admin. R. 409-022-0060 - Access to Health Data The limited data set that is derived from the health care utilization data reported by general acute care hospitals and ambulatory surgical...
Or. Rev. Stat. § 433.094 - Development of immunization registry and tracking and recall system An immunization registry and an associated tracking and recall system established by the Oregon Health Authority and/or a local health department...
Or. Rev. Stat. § 433.095 - Reporting information to registry Pharmacists are required to report information on the administration of vaccines to the immunization registry.
Or. Rev. Stat. § 433.096 - Receiving and disclosing registry information Authorized users may provide information to and receive information from the immunization registry regarding a client’s records.  The...
Or. Rev. Stat. § 442.405 - Legislative findings and policy The Oregon Legislature has made it a statewide policy to require health care facilities to file public disclosure reports that allow private and...
Or. Rev. Stat. § 444.310 - Annual survey of students The Oregon Health Authority will annually conduct a survey, to be completed by June 15, of all public and public charter schools, to collect data...
Public Health Data Collection and Reporting Or. Admin R. 333-505-0080 - Tuberculosis Control Upon learning that a patient is infected with contagious tuberculosis, a hospital must notify the local public health authority and conduct an...
Or. Admin. R. 333-004-0060 - Standards of Care for Contraceptive Management Services Providers participating in the Family Planning Expansion Program must agree to provide contraceptive management services according to the following...
Or. Admin. R. 333-010-0630 - Reporting Requirements for Practitioners When a practitioner diagnoses a case of type 1 or type 2 diabetes in an Oregon child, the practitioner must report the following information to the...
Or. Admin. R. 333-018-0010 - Form of the Report A health care provider required to report reportable diseases must submit to the local public health administrator a report that includes the...
Or. Admin. R. 333-018-0015 - What Is to Be Reported and When Health care providers must report all suspected and actual human cases, and licensed laboratories must report all test results indicative of the...
Or. Admin. R. 333-018-0020 - Reports from Local Public Health Administrators The local public health administrator must immediately notify the Oregon Health Authority of any reported cases of the following diseases and...
Or. Admin. R. 333-200-0090 - Trauma Hospitals The Public Health Division of the Oregon Health Authority will accredit trauma system hospitals after evaluating and approving a hospital’s...
Or. Rev. Stat. § 432.510 - Cancer and tumor registry system The state of Oregon has established a statewide registry system for collecting information on incidences of cancer and benign tumors.  The...
Or. Rev. Stat. § 432.520 - Reporting requirement All health care facilities where patients are diagnosed or treated for cancer or benign brain tumors must report each case of cancer or benign tumor...
Or. Rev. Stat. § 432.530 - Confidentiality of information All identifying information about cases of cancer or benign tumors that is required to be reported must be kept confidential.  Any additional...
Or. Rev. Stat. § 432.540 - Use of confidential data The Oregon Health Authority establishes the rules for when confidential data regarding cancer or benign tumor cases can be used to conduct research...
Or. Rev. Stat. § 433.004 - Reportable diseases The Oregon Health Authority must specify which diseases must be reported, identify the entities or people who must report, prescribe the reporting...
Or. Rev. Stat. § 433.009 - Reporting by law enforcement unit If a law enforcement unit learns that a person charged or sentenced for a crime has a reportable disease, law enforcement personnel must disclose...
Or. Rev. Stat. § 433.295 - Report of cases required All physicians, public health nurses and the administrators of hospitals must report the discovery of cases of phenylketonuria (PKU) to the Oregon...
Or. Rev. Stat. § 433.329 - Reporting known cases Any person that has knowledge of a case of pulmonary tuberculosis must report the case to the Oregon Health Authority.  The name and address of...
Or. Rev. Stat. § 435.496 - Report to Center for Health Statistics Each induced termination of pregnancy or abortion that occurs within the State of Oregon must be reported to the Center for Health Statistics within...
Or. Rev. Stat. § 438.310 - Inspection of laboratory premises The Oregon Health Authority may inspect the laboratory results and records of any clinical laboratory.  The authority may require the owner or...
Or. Rev. Stat. § 444.300 - Database on childhood diabetes The law authorizes the Oregon Health Authority to establish a statewide database for the collection of information on Types I and II diabetes...
Or. Rev. Stat. § 444.320 - Physician report of childhood diabetes A physician who has diagnosed a child under 18 years old with Type I or Type II diabetes must report to the Oregon Health Authority the following...
Public health Registries Or. Admin. R. 333-020-0147 - Newborn Hearing Screening Test Registry The Oregon Health Authority has establish a registry of all newborns and their hearing screening test results or status using information submitted...
Or. Admin. R. 333-049-0050 - Reporting to the Immunization Registry Providers, including pharmacists, who participate in the registry must report immunizations to the registry within 14 calendar days of administration...
Or. Admin. R. 333-049-0070 - Limitations on Access to Information in the Immunization Registry and Tracking and Recall System No authorized user of the immunization registry may access information from the registry about a client who is not currently under their care or...
Or. Rev. Stat. § 433.098 - Nonliability for disclosing or using information Information in an immunization registry regarding a client’s immunization record or tracking and recall record, or information derived from the...
Screenings for conditions if the results are required to be reported Or. Rev. Stat. § 433.323 - Newborn hearing screening test registry and tracking and recall system The newborn hearing screening test registry established by the Oregon Health Authority will include information on the results of all newborn hearing...
Violations of reporting requirements Or. Rev. Stat. § 433.443 - Authority of Public Health Director during public health emergency During a proclaimed state of public health emergency, the Public Health Director may adopt reporting requirements for providers, institutions and...
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