§ 1-551.1. Tumor registry
Oklahoma Statutes AnnotatedTitle 63. Public Health and SafetyEffective: November 1, 2021
Effective: November 1, 2021
63 Okl.St.Ann. § 1-551.1
§ 1-551.1. Tumor registry
A. The State Commissioner of Health shall establish and maintain an up-to-date tumor registry to ensure an accurate and continuing source of data concerning cancerous, precancerous and tumorous diseases. Such registry may include data necessary for epidemiological surveys and scientific research, and other data which is necessary and proper to further the recognition, prevention, control, treatment and cure of cancer, precancerous and tumorous diseases.
B. The Commissioner shall require any hospital, clinic, laboratory, pathologist, physician or dentist, or any facility which provides diagnostic or treatment services for cancerous diseases and precancerous conditions, to report any or all data and information necessary for the purposes of this section which may include the following:
b. 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 the patients whose records the researcher will be reviewing,
2. Researchers may, with the approval of the Commissioner, use the names of individual patients when requesting additional information for research purposes or soliciting an individual patient's participation in a research project. However, if a researcher requests additional information or an individual patient's participation in a research project, the researcher must first obtain the written consent of the patient's attending physician. If the consent of the patient's attending physician is obtained, the researcher must then obtain the individual cancer patient's written consent by having the patient complete a release of confidential medical information form;
3. Data on patients may be shared with other registries, private or governmental, within or without the state, provided that a reciprocal data-sharing agreement, approved by the Commissioner, is implemented with that registry. Such agreements must include patient identification confidentiality requirements; and
E. Nothing in this section shall be construed to compel any individual to submit to any medical examination, treatment or supervision of any kind; nor shall anyone providing information in accordance with this section be deemed to be, or held liable for, divulging confidential information. An individual shall have the right to deny registration on religious grounds.
G. Any person who, in violation of a written agreement to maintain confidentiality, willfully discloses any information provided pursuant to this section shall be denied further access to any confidential information maintained by the Department. That person shall also be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) or imprisonment in the county jail for not more than thirty (30) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Credits
Laws 1987, c. 197, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1987; Laws 2013, c. 235, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2013; Laws 2014, c. 235, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2014; Laws 2018, c. 99, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2018; Laws 2021, c. 279, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2021.
63 Okl. St. Ann. § 1-551.1, OK ST T. 63 § 1-551.1
Current with emergency effective legislation through Chapter 295 of the Second Regular Session of the 59th Legislature (2024). Some sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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