(a) The State Health Officer may enter into agreements to exchange confidential information with other head and/or spinal cord injury 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’ head and/or spinal cord injury registries, federal head or spinal cord injury prevention or rehabilitation agencies, or health researchers in order to collaborate in a national head and/or spinal cord injury registry or to collaborate in head and/or spinal cord injury prevention and rehabilitation research studies.