Ala. Code § 22-13-34: State Health Officer Authorized to Enter into Agreements to Exchange Confidential Information with Other Cancer Registries and to Furnish Confidential Information to Other States, Cancer Registries, Etc.

(a) The State Health Officer may enter into agreements to exchange confidential information with other cancer registries to obtain complete reports of Alabama residents diagnosed or treated in other states and to provide information to other states regarding their residents diagnosed or treated in Alabama.

(b) The State Health Officer may furnish confidential information to other states’ cancer registries, federal cancer control agencies, or health researchers in order to collaborate in a national cancer registry or to collaborate in cancer control and prevention research studies.