Code of Massachusetts Regulations › 105 CMR - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH › Title 105 CMR 302.000 - Congenital Anomalies Registry › Section 302.005 - Definitions

Current through Register 1525, July 5, 2024
Abstractor
means an official or agent
				of the Department authorized by the Commissioner to abstract and record
				individually identifiable health information from patient medical records for
				the Congenital Anomalies Registry.
Birth Defect
see
congenital anomaly.
Commissioner
means the Commissioner of
				the Department of Public Health.
Congenital Anomaly or Birth Defect
means structural, functional or biochemical abnormality, regardless of cause,
				and irrespective of any known genetic or environmental association(s), whether
				manifest prenatally, at delivery or at a later date three years of age or
				younger, and that may interfere with normal growth or development.
Congenital Anomalies Registry
means
				the central data bank containing collected, classified and coded stored data
				relating to reported diagnoses of congenital anomalies.
Department
means the Department of
				Public Health.
Diagnosis
means a physician's opinion,
				derived from physician observation, procedures or tests of a patient, which
				identifies a congenital anomaly or birth defect.
Fetal Death
means a death that is
				required to be reported to the Department pursuant to M.G.L. c.lll, §
				202.
Health Care Facility
means any
				facility or institution located in the commonwealth, whether public or private,
				proprietary or not for profit, including but not limited to hospitals and other
				outpatient facilities such as clinics that provide treatment, diagnostic
				services, or both to any or all of the following: pregnant women, newborns and
				children three years of age or younger.
Incidence
means the frequency of a new
				occurrence of a congenital anomaly over a period of time and in relation to the
				population in which it occurs. Incidence is expressed as a rate, commonly a
				number of new cases during a prescribed time in a unit of population.
Individually Identifiable Health
				Information
means information that is a subset of health
				information, including demographic information, and is created or received by
				the Department and relates to the past, present, or future physical or mental
				health or condition of an individual, the provision of health care to an
				individual, or the past, present, or future payment for the provision of health
				care to an individual, and that identifies the individual or with respect to
				which there is a reasonable basis to believe the information can be used to
				identify the individual.
Patient Identifiers
means confidential
				information that can be attributed to a specific individual including but not
				limited to name, date of birth, address, geocode, telephone number, medical
				record number, health plan beneficiary number, and health identification
				number.
Physician
means any licensed physician
				who makes a diagnosis.
Report
means an official notice to the
				Department of a diagnosis of a congenital anomaly in writing, by facsimile, or
				by electronic means.