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Idaho Statutes
Idaho Statutes are updated to the website July 1 following the legislative session.
MILITIA AND MILITARY AFFAIRS
CHAPTER 9
EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES ACT
46-921. idaho time sensitive emergency system — tse registry confidentiality. (1) Records and information contained in the TSE registry shall be kept confidential and may be released only as provided by this chapter and regulations adopted by the division.
(2) The division and an authorized contractor may enter into agreements to exchange confidential information with other TSE registries in order to obtain complete reports of Idaho residents treated in other states and to provide information to other states regarding such other state’s residents treated in Idaho. Agreements sharing information from the TSE registry shall include a provision requiring the receiving agency to keep such information confidential.
(3) The division and an authorized contractor may, in their discretion, publish or furnish to health researchers and the public de-identified information, including compilations and analyses thereof.
(4) The division and an authorized contractor may furnish confidential information to other TSE registries, federal TSE programs, or health researchers in order to perform and collaborate with research studies. Persons and entities receiving confidential information for research purposes must comply with regulations of the division relating to the confidentiality of TSE registry records and information.
(5) The division and an authorized contractor may furnish confidential information relating to a specific hospital, including compilations and analyses of such confidential information, to the specific hospital to which it relates.
(6) TSE registry records and information shall not be available for purposes of litigation except by order of the court. Any such order shall contain such protective provisions as are reasonable and necessary to prevent the public or further disclosure of the records and information and shall contain a provision requiring the destruction of the records and information when no longer needed for the litigation.
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