Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 16 > Chapter 12 > Subchapter II - Confidentiality of Personal Health Information

• Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
• Child: means a person who has not reached the age of 18 years. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Division: means the Division of Public Health. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 101
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• expunged: means to permanently destroy, delete or make nonidentifiable. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 1210
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Informed consent: means a written authorization for the disclosure of protected health information on a form substantially similar to one promulgated by the Department of Health and Social Services which is signed in writing or electronically by the individual who is the subject of the information. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 1210
• Legitimate public health purpose: means a population-based activity or individual effort primarily aimed at the prevention of injury, disease, or premature mortality or the promotion of health in the community, including all of the following:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 1210

• Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Protected health information: means any information, whether oral, written, electronic, visual, pictorial, physical or any other form, that relates to an individual's past, present or future physical or mental health status, condition, treatment, service, products purchased, or provision of care and that reveals the identity of the individual whose healthcare is the subject of the information, or about which there is a reasonable basis to believe such information could be utilized (either alone or with other information that is or should reasonably be known to be available to predictable recipients of such information) to reveal the identity of that individual. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 1210
• Research: means a systematic investigation, including research development, testing and evaluation, designed to develop or contribute to generalizable knowledge. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 1210
• Secretary: means the Secretary of the Department of Health and Social Services or such persons as may be designated by the Secretary. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 101
• State: means the State of Delaware; and when applied to different parts of the United States, it includes the District of Columbia and the several territories and possessions of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Year: means a calendar year, and is equivalent to the words "year of our Lord. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302