The president must run and support a statewide cancer registry system, including rules, quality control, training, reporting, studies, confidentiality rules, and contracts with private tumor registries.
§1105.3. Powers; duties The president shall: (1) Collaborate with each participating health care provider and radiation center in the state of Louisiana to establish a uniform statewide registry system for collecting cancer incidence data and shall promulgate rules and regulations therefor in accordance with policies established by the board. (2) Establish quality control programs and a training program for health care providers and the personnel of the participating radiation centers. (3) Cooperate with the National Cancer Institute, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and other national and international cancer surveillance programs designated by the Louisiana Tumor Registry in providing cancer data. (4) Comply with reporting procedures and requirements established by the state, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Cancer Institute. (5) Collaborate in studies with clinicians and epidemiologists and publish reports on the results of such studies, and (6) Establish, in accordance with policies of the board, rules and regulations to provide for the confidentiality of a patient's records. (7) Establish and promulgate, in accordance with policies established by the board, the rules and regulations necessary to effectuate the purposes of this Part. (8) Contract with private tumor registries for the collection and furnishing of data to the statewide registry and for the necessary planning and coordination incident thereto. Added by Acts 1978, No. 653, §1. Amended by Acts 1982, No. 812, §1; Acts 1995, No. 1197, §1, eff. June 29, 1995; Acts 2001, No. 197, §1; Acts 2003, No. 225, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 40:1299.82 by HCR 84 of 2015 R.S; Acts 2018, No. 206, §4; Acts 2024, No. 404, §1, eff. May 28, 2024.