Release At Participant’s Request. The Registry allows each Participant to utilize their own data for reporting to external parties through self-service tools. The Practice administrator and others to whom the Participant has granted permission in the registration process, also have access to the Participant’s data. Under either of the above scenarios, the Registry is not involved in the preparation of the reports or in their distribution. In the event a Participant desires the release or reporting of Physician Specific Data or aggregate data other than as facilitated through the self-service or registration process or as authorized and contemplated under this Agreement, the Participant may request the release of such data (to the extent the data are available for release and the Participant has authority to authorize release of the data sought to be released), by signing and submitting to the ABFM a Data Release and Consent Form authorizing the data release to any authorized third party. The Data Release and Consent Form will identify the applicable reporting program. The Data Release and Consent Form shall be in a form prepared by the ABFM, which may be modified from time to time, and which shall be posted on the Registry. Any request for the release of data must be submitted by the Participant and not by a Physician, unless that Physician is a Participant. Any data release authorization for the release of PHI shall first require the Participant’s and the Physician’s execution of a Business Associate Agreement. The ABFM will make reasonable commercial efforts to meet the request for release of data under this Section 3.6 but the Participant acknowledges the Registry is currently not designed to allow for custom reporting at the individual level.
