Nevada § 439A.116 - Establishment of database of certain information relating to renewal of license, certificate or registration; data request provided to certain professional licensing boards; confidentiality of information; duties of Director

§ 439A.116. Establishment of database of certain information relating to renewal of license, certificate or registration; data request provided to certain professional licensing boards; confidentiality of information; duties of Director

1. The Director shall establish and maintain a database of information collected from

applicants for the renewal of a license, certificate or registration as a provider

of health care. The information in the database must include, for each applicant from whom such

information is collected: (a) The type of license, certificate or registration held by the applicant; (b) The race and ethnicity of the applicant; (c) The primary language spoken by the applicant; (d) The specialty area in which the applicant practices; (e) The county of this State in which the applicant spends the majority of his or

her working hours; (f) The address of each location at which the applicant practices or intends to practice

and the percentage of working hours spent by the applicant at each location; (g) The type of practice in which the applicant engages, including, without limitation,

individual private practice, group private practice, multispecialty group private

practice, government or nonprofit; (h) The settings in which the applicant practices, including, without limitation,

hospitals, clinics and academic settings; (i) The education and primary and secondary specialties of the applicant; (j) The average number of hours worked per week by the applicant and the total number

of weeks worked by the applicant during the immediately preceding calendar year; (k) The percentages of working hours during which the applicant engages in patient

care and other activities, including, without limitation, teaching, research and administration; (l) Any planned major changes to the practice of the applicant within the immediately

following 5 years, including, without limitation, retirement, relocation or significant

changes in working hours; and (m) Any other information prescribed by regulation of the Director. 2. The Director shall develop and make available to each professional licensing board

that licenses, certifies or registers providers of health care an electronic data

request that solicits the information described in subsection 1 from an applicant

for the renewal of such a license, certificate or registration. 3. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, information included in the database

is confidential and not a public record. The Director shall: (a) Take all necessary measures to ensure the confidentiality of the identity of providers

of health care to whom information in the database pertains, including, without limitation,

measures to ensure that the identity of a provider of health care is not ascertainable

due to his or her reported profession or the reported location at which he or she

practices. (b) Make data from the database that does not contain any information that could be

used to identify an applicant for or the holder of a license, certificate or registration

as a provider of health care available to the Working Group. The Working Group may use such data to support the recommendations made pursuant

to NRS 439A.121 or include such data in any report published pursuant to that section. (c) Publish an annual report of data from the database that does not contain any information

that could be used to identify an applicant for or holder of a license, certificate

or registration as a provider of health care. (d) Analyze the data in the database and make periodic reports to the Legislature,

the Department and other agencies of the Executive Branch of the State Government

concerning ways in which to: (1) Attract more persons, including, without limitation, members of underrepresented

groups, to pursue the education necessary to practice as a provider of health care

and practice as a provider of health care in this State; and (2) Improve health outcomes and public health in this State.