Oregon Hospital Discharge data is collected by the Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Systems (OAHHS) and is comprised of information on hospital discharges for the entire State of Oregon. Discharge data is currently available in a central repository for the years of 1995 through 2005. Data consist primarily of principal and secondary diagnoses and procedures, hospital IDs, length of stay, and limited demographic information. Information on emergency room visits, urgent care, outpatient surgery, and clinic visits are excluded in this database.
The HDI provides a central database of all hospital discharges for the entire state of Oregon for the purposes of public health surveillance and hospital policy analysis.
Although all hospital discharges are available, all individual identifiers are removed and demographic information such as race and ethnicity is not included. HDI data is owned by the Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Associations. This is secondary data provided by OAHHS.
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OAHHS grants access to the Oregon Hospital Discharge Index using a Data License Agreement. Only a licensee and its employees are allowed to use OAHHS HDI data. A licensee cannot, either during the term of this agreement or at any time thereafter, provide to any other person or legal entity use of HDI data. Data may be used by others in a summary form given HIPPA constraints.
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OAHHS nor any related entity of OAHHS, including their officers, directors, employees and agents, in any way, directly or indirectly, make any representation or warranties regarding the accuracy or validity of data, which is provided through pursuant the data use agreement, either alone or in combination with other data. The Public Health Division does not make any warranty on the completeness, accuracy, or validity of data, which is provided through use of the OAHHS, DHI data.
Data is provided by the OAHHS to the Oregon Department of Human Services, Public Health Division, Office of Disease Prevention and Epidemiology as a comma delimited file annually. The Office of Disease Prevention and Epidemiology places annual data into a central database for access to covered employees.
This data contains the following fields: Admission date Discharge date Primary diagnosis code Additional diagnosis codes Payer State County ZIP code Sex Birth date Hospital discharge from Other information on pharmaceuticals, physicians, and billing included.
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In no event shall OAHHS and its respective officers, directors, employees, agents, successors and assigns be responsible for any indirect, special, incidental, consequential or similar database to LICENSEE or any other person or entity resulting from LICENSEE’s use of OAHHS Hospital Discharge Data. LICENSEE agrees to indemnify and hold harmless OAHHS, its directors, officers, employees, agents, corporate affiliates, and any other contractors of OAHHS, from and against any and all claims, demands, or causes of action for any injuries, losses or violations of patient privacy or confidentiality rights (including all costs and reasonable attorney’s fees incurred in defending any such claim, demand or cause of action) arising out of the use of OAHHS Hospital Discharge Data, either alone or in combination with other data, by LICENSEE or its representatives, agents or employees under this Agreement. LICENSEE acknowledges that neither OAHHS nor any related entity of OAHHS, including their officers, directors, employees and agents, in any way, directly or indirectly, make any representations or warranties regarding the accuracy or validity of data which is provided through pursuant to this Agreement, either alone or in combination with other data. LICENSEE agrees that the liability of OAHHS and any related entity of OAHHS, including their officers, directors, employees, agents, successors and assigns for any claim which LICENSEE might have based upon the accuracy or validity of data which is provided through use of the OAHHS Hospital Discharge Date, either alone or in combination with other data, or for any losses suffered by LICENSEE shall not exceed the return of the amount of the license fee paid by LICENSEE under this Agreement. LICENSEE further acknowledges that OAHHS shall not be liable for any loss due to interruption or delay in access to OAHHS Hospital Discharge Data due to electronic equipment failure, power failure, or other causes.
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