SECTION 310:567-5-1. Confidentiality of registry data

  The Commissioner shall protect the identity of the patient and physician involved in any report required by this act and may not release their identity without written consent, except that: The Commissioner may grant any person involved in a legitimate research activity access to confidential information obtained by the Department concerning individual patients if:

(1)   the research activity is determined to be in the interest of public health and welfare,

(2)   the person conducting the research provides written information about the purpose of the research project, the nature of the data to be collected and how the researcher intends to analyze it, the records the researcher wishes to review, and the safeguards the researcher will take to protect the identity of patients whose records the researcher will be reviewing,

(3)   the proposed safeguards are adequate to protect the identity of each patient whose records will be reviewed, and

(4)   an agreement is executed between the Commissioner of Health and the researcher that specifies the researcher's use of the records and prohibits the publication or release of the names of individual cancer patients or any facts tending to lead to the identification of individual cancer patients (and their physicians). [63:1-551.1(C)]

[Source: Added at 11 Ok Reg 3959, eff 6-21-94 (emergency); Added at 12 Ok Reg 1691, eff 6-12-95]