211.670 Confidentiality of registry reports and records -- Use of information.

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(1)All lists and medical records maintained by hospitals and medical laboratories

pursuant to KRS 211.660 shall be confidential. All information collected and

analyzed pursuant to KRS 211.660 shall be held confidential as to the identity of the

individual patient. Staff of the cabinet, the department, or its designee may use the

information to notify parents of available medical care and other services available

for the child and family. Further disclosure shall be made only pursuant to the

written consent of the child's parent or legal guardian.

(2)Access to information assembled by the Kentucky birth surveillance registry shall

be limited to the cabinet, the department, or its designee and to qualified persons or

organizations engaged in demographic, epidemiological or other similar studies

related to health and health care provision. A written agreement to maintain

confidentiality shall be required if access is approved for persons other than

representatives of the cabinet.

(3)The department shall maintain a record of all persons given access to the

information in the Kentucky birth surveillance registry. The record shall include: the

name of the person authorizing access; name, title, and organizational affiliation of

person given access; dates of access; and the specific purpose for which information

is to be used. This record of access shall be open to public inspection during normal

operating hours of the department.

(4)Information assembled by the Kentucky birth surveillance registry may be disclosed

in summary, statistical, or other form which does not identify particular individuals

or individual sources of information.

(5)Any person who, in violation of a written agreement to maintain confidentiality,

discloses any information provided under KRS 211.660 may be denied further

access to confidential information maintained by the department.