Section 505.30  Definitions

            "Aggregate data" means a compilation of the data received by the Department on Reports of Induced Termination of Pregnancy for each data set listed, except 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 (eg., 50 or fewer) that identity of any person(s) to whom it relates may be discerned; and

Education.

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

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

            "Law" means the Illinois Abortion Law of 1975 (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1991, ch. 38, par. 81-21 et seq.) [720 ILCS 510].

            "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 Tape" means a computer tape of aggregate data.