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Acts, Codes, Laws, Rules, Statutes
- MDH rules
- MDH statutes
- Adverse Health Events Reporting Law
- Asbestos regulations
- Capital expenditure reporting statute
- Clean Indoor Air Act (Freedom to Breathe)
- Food code
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
- Health risk limits for groundwater
- Health risk values for air
- Lead poisoning prevention act
- Managed care quality assurance rules
- Medical Education and Research Costs (MERC) Trust Fund Legislation
- Pool code
- Positive Alternatives Act
- Radioactive materials rules
- Reportable disease rules
- School Immunization Law
- Source water protection laws and rules
- Well management laws and rules
- Woman's Right to Know Act
Data Reporting
- Capital expenditure reporting
- Diagnostic Imaging Report (DI)
- Freestanding Outpatient Surgical Center Report (FOSC)
- Health Plan Financial and Statistical Report (HPFSR)
- Health workforce reporting
- Hospital Annual Report (HAR)
- Infectious disease reporting
- Prescription drug reporting
- Provider Financial and Statistical Report (PFSR)
Economics
- Health Economics Program
Health Reform
- Minnesota's Vision: 2008 health reform law
Legislative Information
- Legislative Information
- Medical Education and Research Costs (MERC) Trust Fund Legislation
Policy
- Data practices policy: Information for the public about public access to MDH data and rights of data subjects (PDF: 150KB/18 pages)
- Hospital Public Interest Review
- Institutional Review Board (review and approval process for department-sponsored research)
- Maximum charges for copies of patient records
- Minnesota Rulemaking Manual
- Notice of access to health records (PDF: 79.8KB/1 page)
- Office of Performance Improvement
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Research on health policy
- Administrative simplification in health care
- Medical Education and Research Costs (MERC)
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Health policy task forces
- Health Care Transformation Task Force
- Maternal and Child Health Advisory Task Force
- Medical Education and Research Costs (MERC)
- Rural Health Advisory Committee
- State Trauma Advisory Council
Spotlight
The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) has released the 2010 Minnesota Health Care Quality Report. The report is a significant building block toward value-based health care in the state. It lays the foundation for provider peer grouping, which will compare providers on both risk-adjusted quality and cost in an effort to both improve quality and contain spiraling health care costs. Statewide Quality Report - 2010 Report