AGENCY: Department of Health and Human Services. Community Health and Well-Being. Division of Population Health

SERIES: 31427
TITLE: Non-positive communicable disease events
DATES: 1981-
ARRANGEMENT: Database.

DESCRIPTION: The Division of Population Health monitors diseases and other conditions that may threaten the health of Utahns. To accomplish this, healthcare providers report certain disease information electronically. For some conditions, negative, equivocal, or indeterminate test results are reportable and used for data analysis after the removal of identifying information about the patient. The records in this series are those original reports sent from healthcare providers.

See Utah Code 26B-1-202(2)(y,aa-dd) (2025), 26B-8-402 (2023), and Utah Administrative Code R386-702 (2024).

Information includes medical test results, date, geographic data.

Privacy annotation: These records do not contain personal data.

RETENTION

Retain for 18 month(s)

DISPOSITION

Destroy.

RETENTION AND DISPOSITION AUTHORIZATION

Retention and disposition for this series were specifically approved by the Records Management Committee.

APPROVED: 03/2026

FORMAT MANAGEMENT

Computer data files: Retain in Office for 18 months after receipt of report and then delete.

APPRAISAL

Administrative

PRIMARY DESIGNATION

Exempt. Utah Code 26B-7-217 through -220

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