(a) “Health care facility” means hospitals; health care clinics; health centers; skilled nursing facilities; mental health facilities; kidney disease treatment centers, including freestanding hemodialysis units; intermediate care facilities; ambulatory surgical facilities; rehabilitation facilities; health maintenance organizations; and hospice care facilities.
(b) “Health care provider” means a person, corporation, facility, or institution licensed in the Territory to provide health care or professional, medical services including a medical, osteopathic, chiropractic or naturopathic physician; hospital; dentist; registered nurse, including an advanced practice registered nurse; optometrist; podiatrist; physical therapist; psychologist; pharmacist and laboratory technician.
(c) “Individually identifiable health information” means information that is a subset of health information, including demographic information collected from an individual, and:(1) is created or received by a health care provider, health plan, employer, or health care clearinghouse;(2) relates to the past, present, or future physical or mental health or condition of an individual; the provision of health care to an individual; or the past, present, or future payment for the provision of health care to an individual; and(3) identifies the individual:(A) by such common identifiers as name, address, birth date, social security number and other common identifies, or(B) with respect to which there is a reasonable basis to believe the information can be used to identify the individual.
(1) is created or received by a health care provider, health plan, employer, or health care clearinghouse;
(2) relates to the past, present, or future physical or mental health or condition of an individual; the provision of health care to an individual; or the past, present, or future payment for the provision of health care to an individual; and
(3) identifies the individual:(A) by such common identifiers as name, address, birth date, social security number and other common identifies, or(B) with respect to which there is a reasonable basis to believe the information can be used to identify the individual.
(A) by such common identifiers as name, address, birth date, social security number and other common identifies, or
(B) with respect to which there is a reasonable basis to believe the information can be used to identify the individual.
(d) “Registry” means the Territorial Chronic Kidney Disease, Stroke and Diabetes Registry.
(e) “Reporting entity” means a healthcare facility that provides services to individuals who are diabetic or have chronic kidney disease and those receiving dialysis treatments.
(f) “Territory” means the Virgin Islands of the United States.