§ 10301 Purpose.

16 DE Code § 10301 (2019) (N/A)
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(a) The purpose of this chapter is to create a public instrumentality of this State known as the Delaware Health Information Network (“DHIN”) which is a not-for-profit body both politic and corporate, which shall have the rights, obligations, privileges, and purpose to promote the design, implementation, operation, and maintenance of facilities for public and private use of health care information in the State. The DHIN shall be the State’s sanctioned provider of health information exchange services.

(b) It is intended that the DHIN be a public-private partnership for the benefit of all of the citizens of this State.

(c) The DHIN shall ensure the privacy of patient health-care information.

71 Del. Laws, c. 177, § 1; 77 Del. Laws, c. 368, §§ 1, 16; 80 Del. Laws, c. 329, §§ 1, 2.