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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>70214</law_id><section_number>32.1-71</section_number><catch_line>Confidential nature of information supplied; publication; reciprocal data-sharing agreements</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>32.1-71.01</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="32.1">Health</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="2">Disease Prevention and Control</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="9">Statewide Cancer Registry</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> The <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span> and all <span class="dictionary">persons</span> to whom information is submitted in accordance with &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Information from hospitals, clinics, certain laboratories and physicians supplied to Commissioner; statewide cancer registry" href="/32.1-70/">32.1-70</a> shall keep such information confidential. Except as authorized by the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span> in accordance with the provisions of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Anonymity of patients and practitioners to be preserved in use of medical records" href="/32.1-41/">32.1-41</a>, no release of any such information shall be made except in the form of statistical or other studies which do not identify individual cases. <a id="paragraph-253528" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/32.1-71/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> The <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span> may enter into reciprocal data-sharing agreements with other cancer registries for the exchange of information. Upon the provision of satisfactory assurances for the preservation of the confidentiality of such information, patient-identifying information may be exchanged with other cancer registries which have entered into reciprocal data-sharing agreements with the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span>. <a id="paragraph-253529" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/32.1-71/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 32-389; 1950, p. 187; 1979, c. 711; 1991, c. 319; 2000, cc. 74, 139.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
