4140 Statewide Health Planning & Development
Program Descriptions

60 - HEALTHCARE INFORMATION

The Healthcare Information Program sets standards for, collects, and maintains financial and utilization data from nearly 5,000 licensed health facilities in California, as well as comprehensive demographic, diagnostic, and treatment data for all patients discharged from licensed hospitals, treated in emergency departments, or having had an ambulatory surgery procedure in hospital surgical clinics. This information is used by healthcare policymakers, healthcare providers, health planners, public and private sector healthcare purchasers, researchers, consumers and the media.