(a) The office shall develop regulations on data quality and improvement processes and shall make these processes publicly available.
(b) Data quality processes shall be applied to each major phase of the system life cycle, including, but not limited to:
(1) Source data intake.
(2) Data conversion and processing.
(3) Data analysis, reporting, and release.
(4) Other data processes necessary for the system.
(c) The office shall provide, upon request of an interested party, to the interested party, and shall regularly report to the health care data policy advisory committee, information on data quality and data quality improvement processes, including, but not limited to, the following:
(1) Descriptions of processes and methodologies.
(2) Periodic updates on known issues and the implications of the issues for data quality and data availability.
(3) Other impediments to the functioning of the system.
(Added by Stats. 2020, Ch. 12, Sec. 23. (AB 80) Effective June 29, 2020.)