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As used in this article:(a) “Birth admission” means the time after birth that the newborn remains in the hospital nursery prior to discharge.
(b) “CCS” means the California Children’s Services program administered through the State Department of Health Services.
(c) “Department” means the State Department of Health Services.
(d) “Electronic database” means a scalable, multiple user, automated newborn and infant data management system supporting role-based security.
(e) “Electronically” means use of a scalable, growth capable, multiple user, automated newborn and infant data management system supporting role-based, user level security that enables the capture and reporting of all newborn hearing screens and collects data that is used to track and monitor newborn children identified or suspected of suffering from hearing loss.
(f) “External data enabled” means that the newborn and infant data management system is capable of sending and receiving protected health information data directly from authorized hospital information systems or of directly uploading data from newborn hearing screening equipment in state-approved formats.
(d)
(g) “Followup services” means all of the following:
(1) All services necessary to diagnose and confirm a hearing loss.
(2) Ongoing audiological services to monitor hearing.
(3) Communication services, including, but not limited to, aural rehabilitation, speech, language, social, and psychological services.
(4) Necessary support of the infant and family.
(e)
(h) “Hearing loss” means a hearing loss of 30 decibels or greater in the frequency region important for speech recognition and comprehension in one or both ears (from 500 through 4000 Hz). However, as technology allows for changes to this definition through the detection of less severe hearing loss, the department may modify this definition by regulation.
(f)
(i) “Infant” means a child 29 days through 12 months old.
(j) “Internet Web-based” means that the newborn and infant data management system resides on a secure
environment that is compliant with the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA, Public Law 104-191). All authorized users at state-certified provider locations shall have access to data on their patients.
(g)
(k) “Intervention services” means the early intervention services described in Part C of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. Sec. 1475 et seq.).
(h)
(l) “Newborn” means a child less than 29 days old.
(m) “Newborn and infant data management system” means an automated system in which all data is stored in a secured database and that allows for entry through the Internet and electronic transfer of data from provider information systems into the secured database.
(i)
(n) “Newborn hearing screening services” means those hearing screening tests that are necessary to achieve the identification of all newborns and infants with a hearing loss.
(j)
(o) “Parent” means a natural parent, adoptive parent, or legal guardian of a child.