Alabama Administrative Code
Title 420 - ALABAMA STATE BOARD OF HEALTH
Chapter 420-6-2 - EXCHANGE OF IMMUNIZATION INFORMATION AND OPERATION OF THE ALABAMA IMMUNIZATION REGISTRY
Section 420-6-2-.01 - Definitions

(1) Health care provider means a physician, nurse practitioner, physician's assistant, nurse, or other health professional duly licensed and authorized to administer immunizations in Alabama. The term includes the clinics, facilities, and hospitals where the licensed health professional practices.

(2) Department means the Alabama Department of Public Health including its county and area subdivisions.

(3) Immunization registry means the statewide, centralized computerized database created, owned, and maintained by the department and which contains immunization information consisting of identifying, locating, and immunization data about former or current Alabama residents.

(4) Identifying data means non-locating data that serve to uniquely identify an individual. Such data may include the immunization registry number, name (last name, first name, middle name, generation), date of birth, sex, race, social security number, place of birth (city, state or country), birth plurality, Medicaid number, mother's name (last name, first name, middle name, maiden name), mother's date of birth, mother's social security number, father's name (last name, first name, middle name), father's date of birth, and father's social security number.

(5) Locating data means data that indicate the location of the individual. Such data include address (street, city, state, zip code), telephone numbers, and health care providers who administered immunizations to the individual.

(6) Immunization data means data that indicate the type(s) of immunization received and date(s) of immunization. The department will determine which immunization antigens are recorded in the immunization registry.

(7) Immunization data user means those individuals and entities with a legitimate need to know immunization data and includes public and private health care providers and the health care facilities they represent; health care insurers; managed care organizations and similar entities; the Alabama Medicaid Agency; officials of public and private day-care centers, schools, and post-secondary educational institutions; and other state immunization registries and any future federal immunization registry that conform with the principles of this chapter.

(8) Vaccines for Children means the federal entitlement program that supplies enrolled health care providers with free vaccine for eligible children.

Author: Charles H. Woernle, M.D., M.P.H.