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16 Del. Code Regs. § 4101-1.0 - Purpose |
The purpose of the birth defects registry is to provide information to public health officials on the existence of health and environmental hazards,... |
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16 Del. Code Regs. § 4101-3.0 - Reporting requirements |
The birth defects registry of Department of Health and Social Services’ Division of Public Health must collect information on any birth defect... |
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16 Del. Code Regs. § 4101-4.0 - Confidentiality of reports |
Information of birth defects reported to the birth defects registry is confidential and may not be disclosed in a manner that reveals patient... |
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16 Del. Code Regs. § 4101-5.0 - Penalties |
Any person or organization that fails to report the diagnosis or treatment of a birth defect must be fined $100 for each violation.
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16 Del. Code Regs. § 4109-3.0 - Reporting requirements |
A physician, surgeon, dentist, podiatrist, other health care practitioner, or health care facility must report cases of children diagnosed with... |
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16 Del. Code Regs. § 4109-6.0 - Confidentiality of reports |
Information maintained by the Department of Health and Social Services’ autism registry must be kept confidential. Patient-identifying... |
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16 Del. Code Regs. § 4109-7.0 - Penalties |
A health care provider who fails to report cases of autism to the autism registry must be fined up to $100 for each violation.
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16 Del. Code Regs. § 4201-3.0 - Duty to report |
Each health care provider must report to the Department of Health and Social Services each patient whom it diagnoses or treats with cancer or a... |
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16 Del. Code Regs. § 4201-6.0 - Deadlines for submission |
A health care provider must report cases of cancer and benign tumors within 180 days of the initiation of treatment or diagnosis.
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16 Del. Code Regs. § 4201-9.0 - Fines |
A health care provider that fails to must report cases of cancer and benign tumors may be fined $100 for each violation.
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16 Del. Code Regs. § 4202-2.0 - Conditions to be reported, timeliness and manner of reporting |
Health care providers must report diseases that are dangerous to public health to the Department of Health and Social Services’ Division of... |
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16 Del. Code Regs. § 4202-4.0 - Persons and institutions required to report |
Reporting of a case or suspect case of a notifiable disease by a hospital fulfills the requirements of the health care provider to report. Hospitals... |
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16 Del. Code Regs. § 4305-7.7 - Delaware state trauma registry |
Hospitals must report traumatically injured patients to the state trauma registry program. The trauma registry data set must be reviewed annually by... |
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16 Del. Code § 2003 - Duties and authority of state agency |
The state agency, defined as the Division of Public Health within the Department of Health, must compile, correlate, analyze and develop data that it... |
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16 Del. Code § 2004 - Reporting requirements |
The Delaware uniform claims and billing data set must be completed for all hospital inpatient discharges and be submitted by the hospitals to the... |
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16 Del. Code § 2006 - Confidentiality and access to data |
The collection, compilation, data analysis, and dissemination of reports must be done in a way that protects patient privacy. The state agency... |
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Del. Code Ann. tit. 16 § 521 - Reporting by health care providers |
Physicians, pharmacists, nurses, hospitals, laboratories, and other health care providers must report cases of tuberculosis to the Department of... |
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Del. Code Ann. tit. 16, § 1211 - Use of protected health information |
The Department of Health and Social Services and related agencies and the Child Death, Near Death, and Still Birth Commission must use health... |
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Del. Code Ann. tit. 16, § 133 - Cancer; Delaware Cancer Consortium |
The Department of Health and Social Services’ Division of Public Health must use any money appropriated to it for the purpose of detecting and... |
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Del. Code Ann. tit. 16, § 2003 - Duties and authority of state agency |
The Department of Health and Social Services’ Division of Public Health must periodically compile and disseminate reports on the data collected... |
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Del. Code Ann. tit. 16, § 201 - Purpose |
The Department of Health and Social Services is responsible for establishing and maintaining the Congenital Disabilities Surveillance and Registry... |
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Del. Code Ann. tit. 16, § 203 - Congenital Disabilities Surveillance and Registry Program |
The Department of Health and Social Services must establish the Congenital Disabilities Surveillance and Registry Program to document every diagnosis... |
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Del. Code Ann. tit. 16, § 204 - Confidentiality of reports |
Any report of a child’s congenital disability to the Congenital Disabilities Surveillance and Registry Program must be kept confidential.... |
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Del. Code Ann. tit. 16, § 206 - Violations |
Any health care provider that fails to report the diagnosis or treatment of a congenital disability in a child under 5 years of age may be fined up... |
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Del. Code Ann. tit. 16, § 221 - Purpose |
The Department of Health and Social Services is responsible for establishing and maintaining the autism surveillance system and registry. Health care... |
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Del. Code Ann. tit. 16, § 223 - Autism surveillance and registry program |
The Department of Health and Social Services must establish the autism surveillance and registry program, which is an up-to-date registry that... |
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Del. Code Ann. tit. 16, § 2602 - Physicians and health care facilities to screen children |
Every health care provider who is the primary health care provider for a child must screen the child for lead poisoning. Laboratories that are... |
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Del. Code Ann. tit. 16, § 3202 - Purpose |
Health care practitioners, hospitals, clinical laboratories and cancer treatment centers must make available to the Department of Health and Social... |
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Del. Code Ann. tit. 16, § 3204 - Cancer registry |
The Department of Health and Social Services must establish a cancer registry to document every occurrence of cancer and benign tumors. Physicians,... |
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Del. Code Ann. tit. 16, § 3205 - Confidentiality of reports |
The Department of Health and Social Services must keep information maintained by the cancer registry confidential. Patient-identifying information... |
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Del. Code Ann. tit. 16, § 3207 - Violations |
Health care practitioners, hospitals, clinical laboratories and cancer treatment centers that fail to report information regarding patients who are... |
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Del. Code Ann. tit. 16, § 501 - Report of contagious diseases- to department |
Local boards of health authorities and physicians in rural districts where there are no health officials must report cases of contagious diseases to... |
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Del. Code Ann. tit. 16, § 502 - Report of contagious diseases- to local boards |
Every physician or other person who has knowledge of any person who is suffering from a contagious disease that is required to be reported by the... |
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Del. Code Ann. tit. 16, § 504 - Notifiable diseases |
The Department of Health and Social Services’ Division of Public Health is authorized to promulgate regulations to require health care... |
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Del. Code Ann. tit. 16, § 702 - Reporting of STDs |
A physician or any other health care professional must report STDs to the Department of Health and Social Services’ Division of Public Health.... |
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Del. Code Ann. tit. 16, § 711 - Confidentiality of records and information |
The Department of Health and Social Services’ Division of Public Health must keep all information of STDs, including HIV/AIDS, strictly... |
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Del. Code Ann. tit. 16, § 712 - Custodian of records |
Department of Health and Social Services officials or employees may not be required to testify in a legal proceeding regarding the records of STDs... |
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Del. Code Ann. tit. 16, § 713 - Penalties; jurisdiction |
The Department of Health and Social Services may impose administrative fines on any person who fails to report cases of STDs.
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Del. Code Ann. tit. 16, § 718 - Enforcement of subchapter |
Any person who took an HIV test and whose identity or test results were improperly disclosed may commence a civil lawsuit to recover damages. The... |
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Del. Code Ann. tit. 16, § 802 - Reporting existence of disease; investigation |
Physicians, surgeons, obstetricians, midwives, nurses, maternity homes or hospitals must report information on newborns with eye inflammation to... |
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Del. Code Ann. tit. 16, § 804 - Penalties |
Physicians, surgeons, obstetricians, midwives, nurses, maternity homes or hospitals that fail to report information on newborns with eye inflammation... |
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Del. Code Ann. tit. 16, § 804A - Newborn and infant hearing screening programs |
Hospitals must establish a Universal Newborn Hearing Screening (UNHS) program. Each UNHS program must provide a hearing screening test for every... |
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Del. Code Ann. tit. 16, § 805A - Surveillance and tracking system |
A state early hearing detection and intervention (EHDI) surveillance and tracking system is established to identify children with hearing loss... |
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Del. Code Ann. tit. 16, § 810A - Confidentiality |
The Department of Health and Social Services’ Division of Public Health must keep information reported to the early hearing detection and... |
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