                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

CONFIDENTIAL NATURE OF INFORMATION SUPPLIED; PUBLICATION; RECIPROCAL
DATA-SHARING AGREEMENTS (§ 32.1-71)

A. The Commissioner and all persons to whom information is submitted in
accordance with &#xA7; 32.1-70 shall keep such information confidential. Except
as authorized by the Commissioner in accordance with the provisions of &#xA7;
32.1-41, no release of any such information shall be made except in the form of
statistical or other studies which do not identify individual cases.

B. The Commissioner 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
Commissioner.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 32-389; 1950, p. 187; 1979, c. 711; 1991, c. 319; 2000,
cc. 74, 139.