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(1) The Director of the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement shall establish and maintain a program to access health data to be known as the “Arkansas Health Data Initiative”.
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(2) The initiative shall be administered and maintained within the the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement.
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(b) The purpose of the initiative is to serve as an access point for studies concerning state and federal health information and to inform and support Arkansas health policy officials.
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(c) Policy development and access to data under the initiative is contingent upon the availability of funding to support projects under the initiative.