SDCL § 1-43-19: Comprehensive health data system established--Purpose.

The Department of Health shall coordinate the establishment and maintain oversight of a comprehensive health data system for the purposes of:

(1) Health care planning, policy development, policy evaluation, and research by federal, state, and local governments;

(2) Monitoring payments for health services by the federal and state governments;

(3) Assessing and improving the quality of health care;

(4) Measuring and optimizing access to health care;

(5) Supporting public health functions and objectives;

(6) Improving the ability of health plans, health care providers, and consumers to coordinate, improve, and make choices about health care; and

(7) Monitoring costs at provider and plan levels.