Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, hospitals, end-stage renal dialysis centers, nursing and other residential care facilities, the New Hampshire veterans’ home, assisted living residences, or ambulatory surgical facilities may provide, and the department may collect under this subdivision, any data or patient identifiers as set forth in the protocols and specifications published and periodically amended by the National Healthcare Safety Network; provided that an individual patient’s name, street address, city or town, telephone number, and social security number shall not be included in any data collected.