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The Committee shall act as the central body responsible for coordinating the bodies participating in the Health Information System to ensure that an integrated and systematic focus is given to the planning, design and implementation process of their respective information systems. The operation of the Health Information System shall be responsible for each of the participating bodies therein.\nFor the purposes of making this chapter feasible and to better use the resources invested in the Health Information System, the Committee shall carry out the following duties:\n(a) Identify, study and evaluate all the problems related to the need, production, distribution, handling and use of health information.\n(b) Promote and stimulate the public agencies, instrumentalities and corporations, and private entities participating in the Health Information System to perform the evaluation of their respective Information Systems and to adopt measures directed towards improving the System.\n(c) Prepare a master plan for the integral design of the Health Information System, in coordination with the bodies participating in said System and to follow up the individual efforts of those bodies in the

are a master plan for the integral design of the Health Information System, in coordination with the bodies participating in said System and to follow up the individual efforts of those bodies in the implementation of the plan.\n(d) Determine the contents and periodicity, while fixing responsibilities for the publication of reports regarding health services intended for the consumer. Said reports shall serve as a tool to guide the consumer in the following areas:\n(1) Charges for hospital and out-patient services.\n(2) The premiums of medical plans and health services insurance compared to the benefits that each insurance offers.\n(3) All changes that arise in the amount of the health services insurance premiums.\n(4) Any other relevant health data for the low-income population.\n(e) Promote the continuing training of the personnel of the bodies participating in the System.\n(f) Evaluate the development of new techniques and statistical procedures applied in other countries, in view of promoting their adoption in Puerto Rico.\n(g) Study, evaluate and develop a uniform data coding system that will allow the participating bodies to interpret the reports, and maintain a reciprocal

of promoting their adoption in Puerto Rico.\n(g) Study, evaluate and develop a uniform data coding system that will allow the participating bodies to interpret the reports, and maintain a reciprocal electronic information system.\nHistory —July 21, 1988, No. 120, p. 508, § 2, retroactive to July 1, 1988.