Title 19 — Health
55 chapters · 745 sections in this title.
19 V.I.C. § 101 Definitions
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(1) In this chapter:(1) “Cancer” means all malignant neoplasms, regardless of the tissue of origin, including malignant lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease, and leukemia.(2) “Health care facility” means hospitals; health care clinics; health centers; skilled nursing facilities; mental he…
19 V.I.C. § 102 Establishment of the Cancer Registry
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(a) There is established within the Department of Health under the division of and supervision of the Virgin Islands Chronic Disease Prevention Program, the Virgin Islands Central Cancer Registry. The Registry serves as the territorial surveillance system and repository of cancer…
19 V.I.C. § 103 Participation in program
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(a) Each healthcare provider and health care facility shall report in an electronic format or any other format requested by the Registry each new case of a reportable neoplasm to the Registry not later than 180 days after the date of diagnosis or date of first contact with the al…
19 V.I.C. § 104 Confidentiality
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(a) All cancer case data provided to the Registry must be kept confidential. No information reported to the Registry which identifies or could lead to the identification of an individual cancer patient may be disclosed to any person or entity; except that the identifying informat…
19 V.I.C. § 105 Disclosure
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(a) Cancer case data may be shared with cancer researchers or federal cancer control agencies for the purposes of cancer prevention, control, and research upon the submittal of documentation to the Registry providing that research in cancer prevention or control is ongoing or app…
19 V.I.C. § 106 Liability
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(a) No person who in good faith discloses privileged or confidential information or provides cancer case reports to the Registry or allows the Registry access to a cancer case report is liable in any civil action. (b) The protection from liability provided in subsection (a) does …
19 V.I.C. § 107 Penalties
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Any person who violates a reporting provision of this chapter or regulations or orders pertaining to the reporting of information to the Registry is subject to a civil fine of not less than $1,000 per case but not more than $5,000 per case. Before assessing the fine, the Commissi…
19 V.I.C. § 108 Program funding
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The Registry must be funded through appropriations from the Legislature, federal agencies and through donations from private entities.
19 V.I.C. § 109 Annual report
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The Registry shall publish an annual statistical compilation that does not include identifying information showing the incidence of cancer in the Territory.
19 V.I.C. § 111 Definitions
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(a) As used in this chapter:(a) “Autoimmune disease” means any disease that results from an aberrant immune response, including, without limitation:(1) Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis (ADEM)(2) Acute necrotizing hemorrhagic leukoencephalitis(3) Addison’s disease(4) Agammaglo…
19 V.I.C. § 112 Establishment
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The Commissioner of the Department of Health shall establish a territory-wide autoimmune disease registry for the purpose of recording types of autoimmune diseases diagnosed or treated in the Virgin Islands and compiling necessary and appropriate information concerning those case…
19 V.I.C. § 113 Reporting requirements
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Physicians, hospitals, health facilities, ambulatory outpatient surgical centers, and medical laboratories shall report to the Department of Health each confirmed case of autoimmune disease. The Department of Health shall, to the greatest extent possible, use the reported informa…
19 V.I.C. § 114 Use of information and confidentiality
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All information reported or collected for the autoimmune disease registry pursuant to this chapter is for use by the Department of Health only, and the Department of Health shall be keep all individually identifiable health information confidential.
19 V.I.C. § 115 Access to information for conducting research
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(1) The Department of Health shall grant any person or entity involved in a legitimate research activity access to information concerning autoimmune diseases obtained by the Department of Health under this chapter under the conditions that:(1) No individually identifiable health …
19 V.I.C. § 116 Release of confidential information
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(1) The Department of Health may release confidential information concerning individual autoimmune disease patients to physicians and local health officers for diagnostic and treatment purposes if:(1) The patient’s attending physician gives oral or written consent to the release …
19 V.I.C. § 117 Annual report
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Not later than December 31 of each year, the Department of Health shall publish and make available to the public an annual report summarizing the information collected under this chapter during that calendar year.