N.Y. State Technology Law 106-A – Health care proxy information
§ 106-a. Health care proxy information. Any state agency, board, bureau, authority, commission, division, or other governmental entity performing a governmental or proprietary function for the state that maintains a public website and has a significant public interaction in the field of public health shall, in consultation with the office of information technology services and the department of health, create a link on their homepage to the health care proxy information on the department of health's website. A state agency, board, bureau, authority, commission, division, or other governmental entity performing a governmental or proprietary function for the state which determines that creating such link would create a financial hardship or which do not have a significant public interaction in the field of public health shall be exempted from the provisions of this section.
Terms Used In N.Y. State Technology Law 106-A
- Office: means the office of information technology services. See N.Y. State Technology Law 101
- State agency: means any department, board, bureau, commission, division, office, council, committee or officer of the state. See N.Y. State Technology Law 101
- Technology: means either a good or a service or a combination thereof, used in the application of any computer or electronic information or interconnected system that is used in the acquisition, storage, manipulation, management, movement, control, display, switching, interchange, transmission, or reception of data or voice including, but not limited to, hardware, software, information appliances, firmware, programs, systems, networks, infrastructure, media, and related material used to automatically and electronically collect, receive, access, transmit, display, store, record, retrieve, analyze, evaluate, process, classify, manipulate, manage, assimilate, control, communicate, exchange, convert, coverage, interface, switch, or disseminate data of any kind or form, and shall include all associated consulting, management, facilities, maintenance, support and training. See N.Y. State Technology Law 101