Illinois Administrative Code › Title 77 - PUBLIC HEALTH › Part 689 - IMMUNIZATION REGISTRY CODE › Section 689.10 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
"Act" means the Immunization Data Registry Act.
"Authorized user" means an individual who has signed an
				Individual User Agreement and Confidentiality Statement, and to whom the
				Department has provided credentials authorizing that person access to the
				Registry.
"Consent" means permission and authorization to access,
				disclose, or allow individual personal information or personal identifiers to
				be used for vaccine verification purposes.
"Department" means the Illinois Department of Public Health or
				its designated agent.
"Designee" means individuals, acting under the authority of a
				health care provider or another category of authorized user, who have been
				specifically delegated responsibility to access the Registry and perform
				functions permitted by the user.
"Director" means the Director of the Department or his or her
				designee.
"Health care provider" or "Provider" means any person licensed
				and authorized to administer or order the administration of any immunization in
				Illinois. Health care provider includes the clinics, facilities, hospitals and
				pharmacies where the licensed health care provider works, as well as Illinois
				licensed long term care facilities.
"Historical record" means a record recorded by a clinic or
				source other than the provider or an immunization not given from the provider's
				inventory.
"Hospital" means a facility that is licensed under the Hospital
				Licensing Act.
"Immunization" means treatment of an individual with any
				vaccine or immunologic drug licensed, approved or authorized for use by the
				United State Food and Drug Administration (FDA), including emergency use
				authorization (EUA) agents, or meeting World Health Organization (WHO)
				requirements, designed for the purpose of producing or enhancing an immune
				response in prevention against a vaccine-preventable disease.
"Individual User Agreement" means a signed agreement stating
				that the Registry user agrees that
information that identifies a
				patient will not be released to any other person without the written consent of
				the patient
. (Section 20(d) of the Act)
"Licensed child care center" means a center, private home, or
				drop-in facility open on a regular basis where children are enrolled for care
				or education that is licensed by the Illinois Department of Children and Family
				Services.
"Licensed child-placing agency" means a child welfare agency
				licensed in Illinois by the Department of Children and Family Services and
				operating in Illinois as an adoption agency or placing agency.
"Local health authority" means a local health department that
				is certified by the Department under the Certified Local Health Department
				Code, having jurisdiction over a particular area, including city, village,
				township and county boards of health and health departments and the responsible
				executive officers of those boards, or any person legally authorized to act for
				the certified local health department. In areas without a certified local
				health department, the local health authority shall be the Department.
"Locked" means that the individual patient record information
				is not available to view other than to the original provider or the
				Department.
"Long term care facility" means a location that is licensed
				under the Nursing Home Care Act, the ID/DD Community Care Act, the Assisted
				Living and Shared Housing Act, the Community Living Facilities Act, the
				Specialized Mental Health Rehabilitation Act of 2013, or the MC/DD Act.
"Opt out" means that an individual may request the Registry to
				lock the record so that it is not retrievable by anyone other than the provider
				site that marked the record as protected.
"Opt-Out Form" means the form that the Department provides,
				which is accessible from the Registry,
to health care providers who are
				authorized to administer immunizations and
to
individuals who
				request the form
. (Section 15(b) of the Act)
"Patient" means an individual for whom an authorized
				immunization provider submits immunization data to the Registry.
"Provider site" means a health care provider, certified local
				health department, elementary or secondary school, licensed child care center,
				licensed child-placing agency, college or university to which the Department
				may release information from the Registry.
"Provider site enrollment" means the agreement that is signed
				by the provider or designee, who assumes responsibility for the proper use and
				protection of Registry data at the site.
"Registry" means the electronic web-based immunization data
				registry operated by the Department as authorized by the Act.
"School" means a State, county, city or special district system
				under the jurisdiction of the Illinois State Board of Education.
"Site manager" means the person at the provider site who
				assumes responsibility for the proper use and protection of the Registry at the
				site.
"User" means an individual, with approved access to the
				Registry, who has signed an Individual User Agreement.
"Web portal" means a secure website to access Department
				programs and documentation, in addition to registering for user accounts to
				access the available program information.