§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 that
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, however, may
use the names of persons when requesting additional information for research
studies after being approved by the cancer commission of the Hawaii Medical
Association and the appropriate federally authorized human subjects protection
board.



(c)  The use of 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 or
the patient's immediate family, including a reciprocal beneficiary, in that
order of priority. [L 1973, c 25, pt of §1; gen ch 1985; am L 1997, c 383, §41;
am L 2008, c 117, §4]