1.  The Director shall establish and maintain a database of information collected from applicants for the renewal of a license, certificate or registration as a provider of health care. The information in the database must include, for each applicant from whom such information is collected:

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(a) The type of license, certificate or registration held by the applicant;

(b) The race and ethnicity of the applicant;

(c) The primary language spoken by the applicant;

(d) The specialty area in which the applicant practices;

(e) The county of this State in which the applicant spends the majority of his or her working hours;

(f) The address of each location at which the applicant practices or intends to practice and the percentage of working hours spent by the applicant at each location;

(g) The type of practice in which the applicant engages, including, without limitation, individual private practice, group private practice, multispecialty group private practice, government or nonprofit;

(h) The settings in which the applicant practices, including, without limitation, hospitals, clinics and academic settings;

(i) The education and primary and secondary specialties of the applicant;

(j) The average number of hours worked per week by the applicant and the total number of weeks worked by the applicant during the immediately preceding calendar year;

(k) The percentages of working hours during which the applicant engages in patient care and other activities, including, without limitation, teaching, research and administration;

(l) Any planned major changes to the practice of the applicant within the immediately following 5 years, including, without limitation, retirement, relocation or significant changes in working hours; and

(m) Any other information prescribed by regulation of the Director.

2.  The Director shall develop and make available to each professional licensing board that licenses, certifies or registers providers of health care an electronic data request that solicits the information described in subsection 1 from an applicant for the renewal of such a license, certificate or registration.

3.  Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, information included in the database is confidential and not a public record. The Director shall:

(a) Take all necessary measures to ensure the confidentiality of the identity of providers of health care to whom information in the database pertains, including, without limitation, measures to ensure that the identity of a provider of health care is not ascertainable due to his or her reported profession or the reported location at which he or she practices.

(b) Make data from the database that does not contain any information that could be used to identify an applicant for or the holder of a license, certificate or registration as a provider of health care available to the Working Group. The Working Group may use such data to support the recommendations made pursuant to NRS 439A.121 or include such data in any report published pursuant to that section.

(c) Publish an annual report of data from the database that does not contain any information that could be used to identify an applicant for or holder of a license, certificate or registration as a provider of health care.

(d) Analyze the data in the database and make periodic reports to the Legislature, the Department and other agencies of the Executive Branch of the State Government concerning ways in which to:

(1) Attract more persons, including, without limitation, members of underrepresented groups, to pursue the education necessary to practice as a provider of health care and practice as a provider of health care in this State; and

(2) Improve health outcomes and public health in this State.