Section 16-38-2-5 - Access to confidential information for research purposes The state department shall grant any person involved in a legitimate research activity access to confidential information concerning individual cancer patients obtained by the state department under this chapter if all of the following conditions are met:
(1) The person conducting the research provides written information about the following: (A) The purpose of the research project.(B) The nature of the data to be collected and how the researcher intends to analyze the data.(C) The records the researcher desires to review.(D) The safeguards the researcher will take to protect the identity of the patients whose records the researcher will be reviewing.(2) The proposed safeguards are adequate to protect the identity of each patient whose records will be reviewed.(3) An agreement is executed between the state department and the researcher that meets all of the following conditions: (A) Specifies the terms of the researcher's use of the records.(B) Prohibits the publication or release of the names of individual cancer patients or any facts tending to lead to the identification of individual cancer patients.Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-4-9-5(b).
As added by P.L. 2-1993, SEC.21.