Section 141-J:2 Definitions. - New Hampshire Statutes

In this chapter:
   I. ""Birth condition'' means one or more of the birth conditions listed in the ""Guidelines for Conducting Birth Defects Surveillance'' established by the National Birth Defects Prevention Network.
   II. ""Commissioner'' means the commissioner of the department of health and human services.
   III. ""Department'' means the department of health and human services.
   IV. ""Health information'' means vital records, hospital discharge data, parental, stillborn fetal, pediatric, or infant medical records, hospital or clinic records, results of genetic tests relating to birth conditions in infants and children, or fetal death reports indicating the birth conditions only but not the tests themselves or any other information therefrom, records of induced termination of pregnancies as to which a diagnosis of a birth condition has been made provided that such information does not include any individually identifiable health information or information that identifies the physician or other medical provider, laboratory reports, and infant, pediatric, or stillborn fetal autopsy reports.
   V. ""Individually identifiable health information'' means health information that explicitly or by implication identifies the individual who is the subject of the information including names, street addresses, birth dates, death dates, admission or discharge dates, telephone numbers, facsimile numbers, electronic mail addresses, social security numbers, medical record numbers, health plan beneficiary numbers, account numbers, certificate/license numbers, biometric identifiers, including finger and voice prints, genetic tests, facial photographic or other images, any other unique identifying number, characteristic, or code.

Source. 2008, 186:1, eff. June 11, 2008.