of clinical coded data providing an opportunity for clinical coders to participate in continuing education, both internal and external to the DHB, and ensuring individual clinical coders have an education development plan. Privacy and Security (See , , CAB (00) M 22/11 and the Health Information Privacy Code 1994.) DHBs are to ensure that: personally identifiable information about individuals is treated with the utmost care and that all privacy legislation and security policies are complied with a formal written authorisation is established before their agents access personal information from the National Collection Systems under the Sharing Agreement between NZHIS & DHBs’ that came into effect ‘Information on 18/12/07. The authorisation is to specify the agency relationship, the purpose(s) for granting the access, and the intended use of the information when the authorisations [referred to in clause b) above] are established or changed, this is immediately reported to the Team Leader, Analytical Services, NHB, the Ministry both information and IT systems managed by the DHB are protected to prevent unauthorised access, damage to or disclosure of information held; be it by either individuals, malware or viruses. Ethnicity reporting (See s, CAB (00) M 22/11, CAB Min (02) 31/13, POL Min (03) 27/3 and CAB Min (04) 42/5A.) For all patient specific services and with particular reference to ethnicity, DHBs must: collect, record, store and output accurate and complete ethnicity data, based on the Ethnicity Data Protocols for the Health and Disability Sector. As part of this process, each DHB must ensure that: all service providers meet the national standards indicated in service agreements to monitor provider compliance and that there is effective follow-up where these requirements are not met they work with the Ministry to educate providers and health and disability sector organisations regarding ethnicity information they can demonstrate that effective processes are in place to monitor and improve the quality of ethnicity data collected ensure that appropriate ethnicity information is included in: reports to the Ministry to aid the monitoring of health issues and improving policy advice reports to both its Māori, Pacific Island specific ethnic and ethnic communities for the purposes of , the monitoring Pacific and ethnic health issues.
of clinical coded data providing an opportunity for clinical coders to participate in continuing education, both internal and external to the DHB, and ensuring individual clinical coders have an education development plan. Privacy and Security (See , , CAB (00) M 22/11 and the Health Information Privacy Code 1994.) DHBs are to ensure that: personally identifiable information about individuals is treated with the utmost care and that all privacy legislation and security policies are complied with a formal written authorisation is established before their agents access personal information from the National Collection Systems under the ‘Information Sharing Agreement between NZHIS & DHBs’ that came into effect on 18/12/07. The authorisation is to specify the agency relationship, the purpose(s) for granting the access, and the intended use of the information when the authorisations [referred to in clause b) above] are established or changed, this is immediately reported to the Team Leader, Analytical Services, NHB, the Ministry both information and IT systems managed by the DHB are protected to prevent unauthorised access, damage to or disclosure of information held; be it by either individuals, malware or viruses. Ethnicity reporting (See s, CAB (00) M 22/11, CAB Min (02) 31/13, POL Min (03) 27/3 and CAB Min (04) 42/5A.) For all patient specific services and with particular reference to ethnicity, DHBs must: collect, record, store and output accurate and complete ethnicity data, based on the Ethnicity Data Protocols for the Health and Disability Sector. As part of this process, each DHB must ensure that: all service providers meet the national standards indicated in service agreements to monitor provider compliance and that there is effective follow-up where these requirements are not met they work with the Ministry to educate providers and health and disability sector organisations regarding ethnicity information they can demonstrate that effective processes are in place to monitor and improve the quality of ethnicity data collected ensure that appropriate ethnicity information is included in: reports to the Ministry to aid the monitoring of health issues and improving policy advice reports to both its Māori, Pacific Island specific ethnic and ethnic communities for the purposes of , the monitoring Pacific and ethnic health issues.
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