The director of public health may contract for the establishment of a statewide organ and tissue donor registry. The contract shall provide for a centralized database and automated system to make organ and tissue donor information available to family members and physicians seven days a week, twenty-four hours per day. The registry shall be used to compile the organ and tissue donation information received by the state department of transportation, county treasurers, attorneys, organ donation awareness programs, and others.
The director of public health shall work with the state department of transportation, county treasurers, and the Iowa organ donor network in developing specifications for the registry. Consideration shall be given to implementing an automated toll-free hotline and providing internet access to the registry.
2000 Acts, ch 1052, §2
Study of feasibility of implementation of registry; 2000 Acts, ch 1052, §3
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