For purposes of this division, the following definitions apply:
(a) “Demonstration project” means a project approved and administered by the office in accordance with this division and the State Cooperative Grant Agreement for health information exchange or any other similar grant or grants.
(b) “Demonstration project participant” means a health care entity that is approved by the office to participate in a demonstration project.
(c) “Director” means the Director of the Office of Health Information Integrity.
(d) “Governmental authority” means any municipal, county, state, or other governmental entity that has jurisdiction and control over the provision of, or payment for, medical services or that routinely receives medical information to complete its designated governmental function.
(e) “Health information exchange service participant” means a health care entity that has voluntarily agreed to use the health information exchange services developed in accordance with this division.
(f) “Meaningful use” means the term as defined in the federal Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act) (Public Law 111-5) and the regulations promulgated thereunder.
(g) “Office” means the Office of Health Information Integrity.
(h) “State Cooperative Grant Agreement” means the grant agreement between the federal government and the state in which the federal government awarded the state with grant money pursuant to the HITECH Act in February 2010.
(Added by Stats. 2010, Ch. 227, Sec. 1. (AB 278) Effective January 1, 2011. Repealed as of date prescribed in Section 130282.)
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