§324-22  Identity of persons studied and material, restrictions.  (a)  The material collected under this part shall be used or published only for the purpose of advancing medical research, medical education, or education of the public in the interest of reducing morbidity or mortality; provided that the Hawaii Tumor Registry may reveal all relevant information to a patient's attending physician.

     (b)  The identity, or any group of facts which tends to lead to the identity, of any person whose condition or treatment has been studied shall be confidential and shall not be revealed in any report or any other matter prepared, released, or published.  Researchers may, however, use the names of persons when requesting additional information for research studies approved by the cancer commission; provided that when a request for additional information is to be made directly from a patient, the researcher shall first obtain approval for such request from the patient's attending physician.

     (c)  The use of such additional information obtained by researchers shall also be governed by subsection (a) and in addition, where the patient is still living and the information is to be obtained directly from the patient, the researcher shall first obtain the approval of the patient, the patient's immediate family including a reciprocal beneficiary, or attending physician, in that order of priority. [L 1973, c 25, pt of §1; gen ch 1985; am L 1997, c 383, §41]