§ 2168. Statewide immunization information system. 1. The department\nis hereby directed to establish a statewide automated and electronic\nimmunization information system that will serve, and shall be\nadministered consistent with, the following public health purposes:\n (a) collect reports of immunizations and thus reduce the incidence of\nillness, disability and death due to vaccine preventable diseases and\ncollect results of blood lead analyses performed by physician office\nlaboratories to provide to the statewide registry of lead levels of\nchildren established pursuant to section thirteen hundred seventy-a of\nthis chapter;\n (b) establish the public health infrastructure necessary to obtain,\ncollect, preserve, and disclose information relating to vaccine\npreventable disease as it may promote the health and well-being of all\nchildren in this state;\n (c) make available to an individual, or parents, guardians, or other\nperson in a custodial relation to a child or, to local health districts,\nlocal social services districts responsible for the care and custody of\nchildren, health care providers and their designees, schools, WIC\nprograms, and third party payers the immunization status of children;\nand\n (d) appropriately protecting the confidentiality of individual\nidentifying information and the privacy of persons included in the\nstatewide immunization information system and their families.\n 2. For the purposes of this section:\n (a) The term "authorized user" shall mean any person or entity\nauthorized to provide information to or to receive information from the\nstatewide immunization information system and shall include health care\nproviders and their designees, as defined in paragraph (d) of this\nsubdivision, schools as defined in paragraph a of subdivision one of\nsection twenty-one hundred sixty-four of this title, colleges as defined\nin section two of the education law, professional and technical schools\nas referred to in the definition of higher education in section two of\nthe education law, children's overnight camps and summer day camps as\ndefined in section thirteen hundred ninety-two of this chapter, third\nparty payer as defined in paragraph (f) of this subdivision, local\nhealth districts as defined by paragraph (c) of subdivision one of\nsection two of this chapter, local social services districts and the\noffice of children and family services with regard to children in their\nlegal custody, WIC programs as defined in paragraph (g) of this\nsubdivision, registered professional nurses, and pharmacists authorized\nto administer immunizations pursuant to subdivision two of section\nsixty-eight hundred one of the education law. An authorized user may be\nlocated outside New York state. An entity other than a local health\ndistrict shall be an authorized user only with respect to a person\nseeking or receiving a health care service from the health care\nprovider, a person enrolled or seeking to be enrolled in the school, a\nperson insured by the third party payer, a person in the custody of the\nlocal social services district or the office of children and family\nservices, or a person seeking or receiving services through WIC\nprograms, as the case may be.\n (b) The term "statewide immunization information system" or "system"\nshall mean a statewide-computerized database maintained by the\ndepartment capable of collecting, storing, and disclosing the electronic\nand paper records of vaccinations received by persons under nineteen\nyears of age.\n (c) The term "citywide immunization registry" shall mean the\ncomputerized database maintained by the city of New York department of\nhealth and mental hygiene capable of collecting, storing, and disclosing\nthe electronic and paper records of vaccinations received by persons\nless than nineteen years of age. The term "citywide immunization\nregistry" shall not include the childhood blood lead registry\nestablished pursuant to the health code o
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