§  10311. The Delaware Health Care Claims Database — Findings; purpose; creation.

(a) The General Assembly finds that:

(1) The establishment of effective health-care data analysis and reporting initiatives is essential to achieving the “Triple Aim” of the State’s ongoing health-care innovation efforts: improved health, health-care quality and experience, and affordability for all Delawareans.

(2) This State’s ongoing effort to transform the State’s health-care system from a fee-for-service system to a value-based system that rewards health-care providers for quality and efficiency of care is a worthy effort, and, to that end, the General Assembly supports the establishment of a health-care claims database to assist in this State’s efforts to achieve the Triple Aim of improving patient care, improving population health, and reducing the per capita costs of health care.

(3) Claims data is an important component of population health research and analysis, and that appropriate access to claims data can facilitate the development of value-based health-care purchasing and the study of the prevalence of illness or injury across the broader population of Delaware and in particular communities or neighborhoods.

(4) Providers and other health-care entities accepting financial risk for managing the health-care needs of a population, including the State as a self-insured employer, should have access to claims data as necessary to effectively manage that risk.

(b) The purpose of this subchapter is to create a centralized health-care claims database to enable the State to more effectively understand utilization across the continuum of health care in Delaware and achieve the Triple Aim.

(c) DHIN, assisted by the Department of Health and Social Services and the Delaware Health Care Commission as necessary, shall administer a centralized health-care claims database, known as the “Delaware Health Care Claims Database.”

(d) The Delaware Health Care Claims Database is created within DHIN to facilitate data-driven, evidence-based improvements in access, quality, and cost of health care and to promote and improve the public health through increased transparency of accurate health-care claims data and information. DHIN shall collect and maintain claims data under this subchapter.