Section 24-14A-8 - Health information system; confidentiality. - New Mexico Statutes

24-14A-8. Health information system; confidentiality.

A.     Health information collected and disseminated pursuant to the Health Information System Act is strictly confidential and shall not be a matter of public record or accessible to the public except as provided in Sections 24-14A-6 and 24-14A-7 NMSA 1978.  No data source shall be liable for damages to any person for having furnished the information to the commission.

B.     Record-level data provided to the department pursuant to Section 24-14A-6 NMSA 1978 are confidential.  The department that receives record-level data shall not disclose the data except to the extent that they are included in a compilation of aggregate data.

C.     The individual forms, electronic information or other forms of data collected by and furnished for the health information system shall not be public records subject to inspection pursuant to Section 14-2-1 NMSA 1978.  Compilations of aggregate data prepared for release or dissemination from the data collected, except for a report prepared for an individual data provider or the provider's designee containing information concerning only its transactions, shall be public records.