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N22402 -oon20 17 °1 WASHINGTON STATE---• IMMUNIZATION • -INFORMATION SYSTEM Every age . Every vaccinaUon. Washington State Immunization Information System RECEIVED Information Sharing Agreement for DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH JUL 122018 EXCHANGE OF IMMUNIZATION DATA Office or lrnmu~iutlor, : Ch,,d Pt·oflle th.e Washington State Department of Healt~ ("DOH") and H ,AiJ!~d::Plan P) for the exchange of immunization records . • DOH is the public health agency that maintains the Washington State Immunization Information System ("11S "), 11S serves as a communications link, repository , and retrieval tool for data on the immun ization status of individuals ("immunization data"). 11S allows health care providers and health plans to exchange immunization data with other health care providers and health plans as authorized under Chapter 70.02 RCW. • Provider/Plan is: (check one): [ ] A public agency, corporation, or other entity with individual shareholders, members, officers, employees, contractors, or other personnel who are authorized under Washington law to provide health care or public health services to individuals . [ ] A healthcare service contractor authorized by the Washington Insurance Commissioner to sell health insurance to, and/or administer health insurance plans in Washington State. [ ] A school, school district, Head Start organization , and/or ECEAP grantee authorized to provide or coordinate healthcare services for students through personnel who are authorized under Washington law to provide such services. [ ] An individual authorized under Washington law to provide health care services to individuals. • Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and Chapter 70.02 RCW, the uniform health care information act require healthcare providers to keep personal health care information confidential. Immunization records are persona l health care data . Healthcare providers may disclose immunization records to DOH under 45 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) § 164.512(b)(1 )(i) and RCW 70.02.050(2) because DOH is a public health agency authorized to collect immunization data. • Chapter 42.48 RCW governs the release for research of confidential personal records obtained or maintained by a Washington state agency. Individually Identifiable immunization records obtained by IIS are as such personal records. Therefore, release of 11S individually identifiable immunization data for research is subject to the requirements of Chapter 42.48 RCW. • Subject to the terms and conditions of this agreement, Provider/Plan and DOH may exchange immunization records for patients cared for by Provider/Plan . The purpose of the data exchange is to improve patient care and public health . DOH 348•576 November 2017