Section 505.30  Definitions

            "Aggregate data" means a compilation of the data received by the Department on Induced Termination of Pregnancy Reports or Reports of Subsequent Complications after an Induced Termination of Pregnancy for each data set listed, except that the following will not be included:

Facility name;

Patient's identification number;

Physician's license number;

Any set of information for which the amount is so small (e.g., 50 or fewer) that identity of any person or persons to whom it relates may be discerned;

Education; and

Race and ethnicity.

"Complications" means those complications resulting from an abortion which, according to contemporary medical standards, are manifested by symptoms with severity equal to or greater than hemorrhaging requiring transfusion, infection, incomplete abortion, or punctured organs.  (Section 10.1 of the Law)

            "Department" means the Department of Public Health, State of Illinois. (Section 2 of the Law)

            "Director" means the Director, or his or her designee, of the Department of Public Health, State of Illinois.

            "Law" means the Illinois Abortion Law of 1975.

            "Patient identifying information" means any information or collection or grouping of data from which the identity of the person to whom it relates may be discerned.

            "Physician" means any person licensed to practice medicine in all its branches under the Illinois Medical Practice Act of 1987. (Section 2 of the Law)

            "Pregnancy termination" means the use of any instrument, medicine, drug or other substance or any device to terminate the pregnancy of a woman known to be pregnant with an intention other than to increase the probability of a live birth, to preserve the life or health of the child after live birth, or to remove a dead fetus.  (Section 2 of the Law)

            "Public Use File" means a computer file of aggregate data.

(Source:  Amended at 37 Ill. Reg. 1744, effective January 23, 2013)