32.1-71 - Confidential nature of information supplied; publication; reciprocal data-sharing agreements. - Virginia Statutes

§ 32.1-71. Confidential nature of information supplied; publication;reciprocal data-sharing agreements.

A. The Commissioner and all persons to whom information is submitted inaccordance with § 32.1-70 shall keep such information confidential. Except asauthorized by the Commissioner in accordance with the provisions of §32.1-41, no release of any such information shall be made except in the formof statistical or other studies which do not identify individual cases.

B. The Commissioner may enter into reciprocal data-sharing agreements withother cancer registries for the exchange of information. Upon the provisionof satisfactory assurances for the preservation of the confidentiality ofsuch information, patient-identifying information may be exchanged with othercancer registries which have entered into reciprocal data-sharing agreementswith the Commissioner.

(Code 1950, § 32-389; 1950, p. 187; 1979, c. 711; 1991, c. 319; 2000, cc. 74,139.)