135.40 - COLLECTION AND DISTRIBUTION OF INFORMATION.
135.40 COLLECTION AND DISTRIBUTION OF INFORMATION.
Any person, hospital, sanatorium, nursing or rest home, or other
organization may provide information, interviews, reports,
statements, memoranda, or other data relating to the condition and
treatment of any person to the department, the Iowa medical society
or any of its allied medical societies, the Iowa osteopathic medical
association, any in-hospital staff committee, or the Iowa healthcare
collaborative, to be used in the course of any study for the purpose
of reducing morbidity or mortality, and no liability of any kind or
character for damages or other relief shall arise or be enforced
against any person or organization that has acted reasonably and in
good faith, by reason of having provided such information or
material, or by reason of having released or published the findings
and conclusions of such groups to advance medical research and
medical education, or by reason of having released or published
generally a summary of such studies.
For the purposes of this section, and section 135.41, the "Iowa
healthcare collaborative" means an organization which is exempt
from federal income taxation under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal
Revenue Code and which is established to provide direction to promote
quality, safety, and value improvement collaborative efforts by
hospitals and physicians. Section History: Early Form
[C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 135.40] Section History: Recent Form
2006 Acts, ch 1128, §1