TITLE X
PUBLIC HEALTH

CHAPTER 141-J
BIRTH CONDITIONS PROGRAM

Section 141-J:3

    141-J:3 Program Access to Health Information. –
I. Health care providers, health care facilities, clinics, laboratories, medical records departments, and state offices, agencies, and departments shall allow the program to have access to individually identifiable health information relating to the occurrence of birth conditions in children, infants, or stillborn fetuses. The program may acquire the same information relating to New Hampshire residents from health care facilities, birth conditions surveillance programs, and other sources in other states. The program shall not provide individually identifiable health information relating to New Hampshire residents to any similar program operated by any other state or the federal government.
II. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, no health care provider, health care facility, clinic, laboratory, medical records department, or state office, agency, or department shall be held liable in any action for civil damages for providing the department or the program with access to individually identifiable health information authorized by paragraph I.

Source. 2008, 186:1, eff. June 11, 2008.