---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 C.F.R. § 480.143"
title: "42"
number: "480.143"
heading: "QIO involvement in shared health data systems."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/42/480.143"
---

# §480.143. QIO involvement in shared health data systems.

- (a) **Information collected by a QIO.** Except as prohibited in [paragraph (b)](#b) of this section, information collected by a QIO may be processed and stored by a cooperative health statistics system established under the Public Health Service Act ([42 U.S.C. 242k](/usc/42/242k.md)) or other State or Federally authorized shared data system.
- (b) **QIO participation.** A QIO may not participate in a cooperative health statistics system or other shared health data system if the disclosure rules of the system would prevent the QIO from complying with the rules of this part.
- (c) **Disclosure of QIO information obtained by a shared health data system.** QIO information must not be disclosed by the shared health data system unless—
  - (1) The source from which the QIO acquired the information consents to or requests disclosure; or
  - (2) The QIO requests the disclosure of the information to carry out a disclosure permitted under a provision of this part.

## Notes

### Source

Source: 50 FR 15359, Apr. 17, 1985, unless otherwise noted. Redesignated at 64 FR 66279, Nov. 24, 1999.

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 1302 and 1395hh.