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title: O.C.G.A. § 31-53-46. Design criteria.
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# O.C.G.A. § 31-53-46. Design criteria.

The advisory committee and the administrator should consider the following design criteria:

(1) Allowing the use of federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 compliant, government level secured cloud computing resources to save funding;

(2) Ensuring all inbound data is converted to a common standard and ensuring that data quality checks are done on inbound data;

(3) Requiring all communications to and from the database to use encryption and IP whitelisting where appropriate;

(4) Providing industry standard interfaces for accessing the data from approved users;

(5) Grouping the data in ways to match the relevant cohorts of interest; and

(6) Insuring that at no point does any personally identifiable information reside in the database.

## History

Code 1981, § 31-53-46, enacted by Ga. L. 2020, p. 743, § 1/SB 482.