New Jersey Statutes 52:9YY-6. Disclosure of health data, conditions
Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 52:9YY-6
- Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
- person: includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals, unless restricted by the context to an individual as distinguished from a corporate entity or specifically restricted to one or some of the above enumerated synonyms and, when used to designate the owner of property which may be the subject of an offense, includes this State, the United States, any other State of the United States as defined infra and any foreign country or government lawfully owning or possessing property within this State. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
- Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
- Testify: Answer questions in court.
b. A person or entity to whom the department has disclosed health data shall make no disclosure of any health data which identifies a person’s health status or utilization of health care unless the person described in the data has consented to the disclosure.
c. No identifiable health data obtained by the department shall be subject to subpoena or similar compulsory process in a civil or criminal, judicial, administrative or legislative proceeding, nor shall a person or entity with lawful access to identifiable health data pursuant to this act be compelled to testify with regard to that data; except that data pertaining to a party in litigation may be subject to subpoena or similar compulsory process in an action brought by or on behalf of that party to enforce a liability arising under this act.
L.2001, c.192, s.6; amended 2010, c.87, s.14.