135.160 - DEFINITIONS. - Iowa Statutes

135.160 DEFINITIONS. For the purpose of this division, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Board" means the state board of health created pursuant to section 136.1. 2. "Chronic care" means health care services provided by a health care professional for an established clinical condition that is expected to last a year or more and that requires ongoing clinical management attempting to restore the individual to highest function, minimize the negative effects of the chronic condition, and prevent complications related to the chronic condition. 3. "Chronic care information system" means approved information technology to enhance the development and communication of information to be used in providing chronic care, including clinical, social, and economic outcomes of chronic care. 4. "Chronic care management" means a system of coordinated health care interventions and communications for individuals with chronic conditions, including significant patient self-care efforts, systemic supports for the health care professional and patient relationship, and a chronic care plan emphasizing prevention of complications utilizing evidence-based practice guidelines, patient empowerment strategies, and evaluation of clinical, humanistic, and economic outcomes on an ongoing basis with the goal of improving overall health. 5. "Chronic care plan" means a plan of care between an individual and the individual's principal health care professional that emphasizes prevention of complications through patient empowerment including but not limited to providing incentives to engage the patient in the patient's own care and in clinical, social, or other interventions designed to minimize the negative effects of the chronic condition. 6. "Chronic care resources" means health care professionals, advocacy groups, health departments, schools of public health and medicine, health plans, and others with expertise in public health, health care delivery, health care financing, and health care research. 7. "Chronic condition" means an established clinical condition that is expected to last a year or more and that requires ongoing clinical management. 8. "Department" means the department of public health. 9. "Director" means the director of public health. 10. "Eligible individual" means a resident of this state who has been diagnosed with a chronic condition or is at an elevated risk for a chronic condition and who is a recipient of medical assistance, is a member of the expansion population pursuant to chapter 249J, or is an inmate of a correctional institution in this state. 11. "Health care professional" means health care professional as defined in section 135.157. 12. "Health risk assessment" means screening by a health care professional for the purpose of assessing an individual's health, including tests or physical examinations and a survey or other tool used to gather information about an individual's health, medical history, and health risk factors during a health screening.          Section History: Recent Form 2008 Acts, ch 1188, §50