Arizona Laws 36-3295. Registry information; confidentiality; health care provider access; use and transfer of information; definition
A. Information maintained by the qualifying health information exchange organization pursuant to this article is confidential and shall not be disclosed except as allowed by state or federal law.
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 36-3295
- Donor: The person who makes a gift.
- Health care directive: means a document drafted in substantial compliance with this chapter, including a mental health care power of attorney, to deal with a person's future health care decisions. See Arizona Laws 36-3201
- Health care provider: means a natural person who is licensed under Title 32, Chapter 11, 13, 15, 17 or 25, a hospice as defined in section 36-401 that is licensed under chapter 4 of this title or an organization that is licensed under this title, that renders health care designed to prevent, diagnose or treat illness or injury and that employs persons licensed under Title 32, Chapter 11, 13, 15, 17 or 25. See Arizona Laws 36-3201
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
- Qualifying health information exchange organization: means a nonprofit health information organization as defined in section 36-3801 that is designated by the department of health services pursuant to section 36-3291 to operate the health care directives registry. See Arizona Laws 36-3201
- Surrogate: means a person authorized to make health care decisions for a patient by a power of attorney, a court order or the provisions of section 36-3231. See Arizona Laws 36-3201
B. The person who submits a document described in section 36-3292, the person who is the subject of the document and the surrogate of the person who is the subject of the document may access the document in the health care directives registry in a manner prescribed by the qualifying health information exchange organization.
C. Notwithstanding subsection A of this section, a health care provider may access the health care directives registry and receive a patient’s health care directive documents for the provision of health care services.
D. The qualifying health information exchange organization shall use information contained in the registry only for purposes prescribed in this article, except that the qualifying health information exchange organization may use, disclose and make accessible the information contained in the registry through the health information organization as authorized by section 36-3805, subsection A.
E. At the request of the person who submitted a document described in section 36-3292, the qualifying health information exchange organization may transmit the information received regarding the document to the registry system of another jurisdiction.
F. For the purposes of this section, "health care provider" includes an emergency medical service provider and emergency service technician providing emergency medical services as defined in section 36-2201 and the organ procurement organization that maintains the donor registry established pursuant to section 36-858.