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.

Effective 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.