§ 16-38-4-11 — Access to confidential information for research

The state department shall grant any person
involved in a legitimate research activity access to confidential
information concerning individual patients obtained by the state
department under this chapter if:
(1) the person conducting the research provides written
information about the purpose of the research project, the nature
of the data to be collected and how the researcher intends to
analyze it, the records the researcher wishes to review, and 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; and
(3) an agreement is executed between the state department and
the researcher that specifies the terms of the researcher's use of
the records and that prohibits the publication or release of the
names of individual patients or any facts tending to lead to the
identification of individual patients.

Legislative History

As added by P.L.180-1993, SEC.2.