NAC441A.930. Voluntary program for reporting information to system; acceptance by health authority of information voluntarily reported in lieu of information otherwise required.

     1. The health authority may establish a voluntary program in which an emergency facility, a health care provider or a pharmacy agrees to report information to the system for syndromic reporting and active surveillance in the absence of a major event or determination by the health authority that the reporting is otherwise appropriate and necessary to monitor the public health in this State.

     2. During a major event or if the health authority determines that reporting information to the system for syndromic reporting and active surveillance is otherwise appropriate and necessary to monitor the public health in this State, the health authority may agree to accept the information reported by a participant in a voluntary program established pursuant to subsection 1 in lieu of any information that could otherwise be required pursuant to NAC 441A.920 or 441A.925 if the health authority determines that the information voluntarily reported is substantively equivalent to the information that would otherwise be required.

     (Added to NAC by Bd. of Health by R087-08, eff. 1-13-2011)