1.  The Chief Medical Officer shall, pursuant to regulations adopted by the State Board of Health pursuant to NRS 439.4978, establish and maintain a system for the reporting of information on lupus and its variants. The Chief Medical Officer shall coordinate with the National Lupus Patient Registry of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the United States Department of Health and Human Services when establishing and maintaining the system.

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2.  The system established pursuant to subsection 1 must include a record of the cases of lupus and its variants which occur in this State along with such information concerning the cases as may be appropriate to form the basis for:

(a) Conducting comprehensive epidemiologic surveys of lupus and its variants in this State; and

(b) Evaluating the appropriateness of measures for the treatment of lupus and its variants.

3.  Hospitals, medical laboratories and other facilities that provide screening, diagnostic or therapeutic services to patients with respect to lupus and its variants shall report the information prescribed by the State Board of Health pursuant to NRS 439.4978 to the system established pursuant to subsection 1.

4.  Any provider of health care who diagnoses or provides treatment for lupus and its variants, except for cases directly referred to the provider or cases that have been previously admitted to a hospital, medical laboratory or other facility described in subsection 3, shall report the information prescribed by the State Board of Health pursuant to NRS 439.4978 to the system established pursuant to subsection 1.

5.  As used in this section:

(a) ’Medical laboratory’ has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 652.060.

(b) ’Provider of health care’ has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 629.031.