The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
(Cite as: 18 V.S.A. § 154)
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§ 154. Confidentiality
(a) All information reported pursuant to this chapter shall be confidential and privileged.
The Commissioner shall take strict measures to ensure that all identifying information
is kept confidential.
(b) All identifying information regarding an individual patient, health care provider,
or health care facility contained in records of interviews, written reports, and statements
procured by the Commissioner or by any other person, agency, or organization acting
jointly with the Commissioner in connection with cancer morbidity and mortality studies
shall be confidential and privileged and shall be used solely for the purposes of
the study. Nothing in this section shall prevent the Commissioner from publishing
statistical compilations relating to morbidity and mortality studies that do not identify
individual cases or sources of information. (Added 1993, No. 90, § 2.)