Code of Maine Rules
10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
144 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES - GENERAL
Chapter 255 - CANCER INCIDENCE REGISTRY REGULATIONS
Section 144-255-1 - DEFINITIONS
Current through 2024-38, September 18, 2024
A. Department means the Department of Human Services.
B. Director means the director of the Bureau of Health.
C. Reporting Facility means any hospital, pathology laboratory, rural health clinic, ambulatory care facility, ambulatory surgery center, radiation therapy center, or other health care facility, providing screening, diagnostic or therapeutic services to patients with respect to cancer, which is licensed to operate in the State of Maine.
D. Reportable Case means any newly diagnosed cancer patient.
E. Confidentiality means the extension of an individual's right of privacy; the process of how information once collected will be maintained.
F. Reporting Physician means a licensed health care provider who diagnoses or treats a cancer case which has not nor will be directly referred to a treatment facility for diagnosis or treatment of that instance of cancer.
G. Certified Tumor Registrar means any individual who has passed the Certification Examination for Cancer Registrars and who meets the current continuing education requirements of the National Cancer Registrars Association.
