Texas Administrative Code
Title 25 - HEALTH SERVICES
Part 1 - DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES
Chapter 37 - MATERNAL AND INFANT HEALTH SERVICES
Subchapter P - SURVEILLANCE AND CONTROL OF BIRTH DEFECTS
Section 37.304 - Confidentiality of Information Provided to the Department
Universal Citation: 25 TX Admin Code ยง 37.304
Current through Reg. 49, No. 38; September 20, 2024
(a) Reports, records, and other information collected by, or provided to the department relating to persons known to have, or suspected of having a birth defect are confidential records and not public information and may not be released except as described in subsection (b) of this section. The confidential records include medical and other information obtained as part of epidemiologic or other investigations and the records and information gathered as part of the operation of the central registry.
(b) The department may release demographic, medical, epidemiological, or toxicological information:
(1) for statistical purposes, if released in
a manner that prevents the identification of any person;
(2) with the consent of each person
identified in the information or, if the person is unable to consent or is a
minor, the minor's parents, managing conservator, guardian, or other person who
is legally authorized to consent;
(3) to medical personnel, appropriate state
agencies, health authorities, regional directors, and public officers of
counties and municipalities relating to the identification, monitoring, and
referral of children with birth defects;
(4) to appropriate federal agencies such as
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the United States Public
Health Service;
(5) to medical
personnel to the extent necessary to protect the health or life of the child
identified in the information; or
(6) to medical researchers conducting bona
fide medical research under the conditions described in §
37.306
of this title (relating to Access to Information in the Central Registry), and
Health and Safety Code, §
87.063.
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