The department may disclose or authorize the disclosure of
reportable disease and condition information, limited to that necessary to
provide medical care to a person or to prevent the further transmission of a
reportable disease or condition. The following may receive confidential,
pertinent, reportable disease or condition information:
(1) Physicians and health care workers for
whom the information is necessary to proceed with medical treatment;
(2) Institutions whose employees or clients
may pose a risk to the public's health;
(3) Review panels convened or authorized by
the department regarding HIV-infected physicians or health care
workers;
(4) Agencies of the U.S.
Public Health Services, including the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention and Indian Health Services, and other local, state, tribal, and
territorial health agencies;
(5)
Agencies or persons receiving donated blood, organs, tissues, or body
fluids;
(6) Researchers conducting
anonymous epidemiological research;
(7) Health care workers, emergency response
workers, good samaritans, and funeral directors if there has been a potentially
significant exposure to the blood or body fluids of a person;
(8) School officials or administrators of
child care settings if there is an exposure affecting children;
(9) Contacts of infected persons;
and
(10) Health care workers
needing tuberculosis information to comply with tuberculosis screening
requirements.
Notes
S.D. Admin. R.
44:20:02:08
20 SDR 69, effective
November 17, 1993; 28 SDR 92, effective December 30, 2001; 38 SDR 8, effective
August 1, 2011.
General Authority: SDCL
34-1-17,
34-22-9,
34-22-12,
34-23-13.
Law Implemented: SDCL
34-22-9,
34-22-12,
34-22-12.1,
34-23-13.
