As used in the Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Prevention Act:
A. "aggregate data" means health care data that exclude any individually identifiable health information, including patient and health care provider identification;
B. "chief medical officer" means the chief medical officer of the department;
C. "committee" means the maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity review committee, including the subcommittee;
D. "de-identified data" means removal any of the following identifiers:
(1) names;
(2) any geographic subdivision smaller than a state, including street address, city, county, precinct and zip code and their equivalent geocodes;
(3) all elements of dates, except the year of an incident, for dates directly related to an individual, including birth date, admission date, discharge date and date of death;
(4) telephone numbers;
(5) fax numbers;
(6) electronic mail addresses;
(7) social security numbers;
(8) medical record numbers;
(9) health plan beneficiary numbers;
(10) account numbers;
(11) certificate and license numbers;
(12) vehicle identifiers and serial numbers, including license plate numbers;
(13) device identifiers and serial numbers;
(14) web universal resource locators, also known as "URLs";
(15) internet protocol address numbers;
(16) biometric identifiers, including finger and voice prints;
(17) full-face photographic images and any comparable images; and
(18) any other unique identifying number, characteristic or code;
E. "department" means the department of health;
F. "health care provider" means:
(1) an individual licensed, certified or otherwise authorized to provide health care services in the ordinary course of business in the state; or
(2) a health facility that the department licenses;
G. "law enforcement agency" means a law enforcement agency of the state or a political subdivision of the state;
H. "maternal mortality" means the death of a pregnant woman or a woman within one year postpartum;
I. "medical record" means the written or graphic documentation, sound recording or electronic record relating to medical, behavioral health and health care services that a patient receives from a health care provider, under the direction of a physician or another licensed health care provider. "Medical record" includes diagnostic documentation, including an x-ray, electrocardiogram and electroencephalogram; other test results; data entered into a prescription drug monitoring program; and an autopsy report;
J. "severe maternal morbidity" means a condition that occurs in a woman during pregnancy or within one year of the end of pregnancy that results in:
(1) admission to the intensive care unit of a health facility; or
(2) transfusion of four or more units of red blood cells; and
K. "subcommittee" means the abstractor subcommittee of the committee.
History: Laws 2019, ch. 41, § 2.
ANNOTATIONSEffective dates. — Laws 2019, ch. 41 contained no effective date provision, but, pursuant to N.M. Const., art. IV, § 23, was effective June 14, 2019, 90 days after the adjournment of the legislature.