(a) The corporation has no authority and shall not engage in any of the following:
(1) the collection and analysis of clinical data;
(2) the comparison of physicians to other physicians, including comparisons to peer group physicians, physician groups, and physician teams, and to national specialty society adopted quality measurements;
(3) the creation of a tool to measure physician performance compared to:
(A) peer group physicians on state and specialty levels; or
(B) objective standards;
(4) the providing of access to aggregated, de-identified protected health information to local health information exchanges and other users of quality care studies, disease management and population health assessments;
(5) providing to public health programs trended, aggregated, de-identified protected health information to help assess the health status of populations and the providing of regular reports of trends and important incidence of events to public health avenues for intervention, education, and prevention programs; or
(6) the creation of evidence-based standards for the practice of medicine.
(b) The corporation has no authority and shall not disseminate information, in any manner, to the public that compares, rates, tiers, classifies, measures, or ranks a physician’s performance, efficiency, or quality of practice.