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. § 174)
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§ 174. Confidentiality
(a)(1) All identifying information regarding an individual patient or health care provider
is exempt from public inspection and copying under the Public Records Act and shall
be kept confidential.
(2) Notwithstanding subdivision (1) of this subsection, the Commissioner may enter into
data sharing and protection agreements with researchers or state, regional, or national
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis registries for bidirectional data exchange, provided
access under such agreements is consistent with the privacy, security, and disclosure
protections in this chapter. In the case of researchers, the Commissioner shall also
first obtain evidence of the approval of their academic committee for the protection
of human subjects established in accordance with 45 C.F.R. Part 46. The Commissioner shall disclose the minimum information necessary to accomplish
a specified research purpose.
(b) The Department may disclose aggregated and deidentified information from the registry. (Added 2021, No. 149 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. July 1, 2023.)