(1)(a) All information procured by or furnished to the Oregon Health Authority, any federal public health agency or any nonprofit health agency that is exempt from taxation under the laws of this state or procured by any agency, organization or person acting jointly with or at the request of the authority, in connection with special epidemiologic morbidity and mortality studies, is confidential, nondiscoverable and inadmissible in any proceeding and is exempt from disclosure under ORS § 192.311 to 192.478. A person communicating information in connection with special epidemiologic morbidity and mortality studies pursuant to this subsection may not be examined about the communication or the information.

Terms Used In Oregon Statutes 413.196

  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Person: includes individuals, corporations, associations, firms, partnerships, limited liability companies and joint stock companies. See Oregon Statutes 174.100

(b) Nothing in this subsection affects the confidentiality or admissibility into evidence of data not otherwise confidential or privileged that is obtained from sources other than the authority.

(c) As used in this subsection, ‘information’ includes, but is not limited to, written reports, notes, records, statements and studies.

(2) The furnishing of morbidity and mortality information to the authority or health agency, to its authorized representatives or to any other agency, organization or person cooperating in a special epidemiologic study, does not subject any hospital, sanitarium, rest home, nursing home or other organization or person furnishing such information to an action for damages.

(3) Subsection (1) of this section does not prevent the authority or a health agency from publishing:

(a) Statistical compilations and reports relating to special epidemiologic morbidity and mortality studies, if such compilations and reports do not identify individual cases and sources of information.

(b) General morbidity and mortality studies customarily and continuously conducted by the authority or health agency that do not involve patient identification.

(4) Nothing in this section prevents disposition of records described in subsection (1) of this section pursuant to ORS § 192.105. [Formerly 432.060]

 

[Amended by 1955 c.444 § 4; 1961 c.620 § 20; subsection (2) enacted as 1961 c.620 § 7; 1969 c.203 § 10; 1971 c.455 § 1; 1975 c.386 § 3; 1985 c.522 § 3; 1993 c.249 § 4; 1995 c.664 § 93; repealed by 2005 c.381 § 30]

 

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