(a) In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated. (b) 'Child' means an individual under the age of 18 years. (c) 'Child death review case reporting system' means a national, standardized, web–based reporting system for the confidential collection, analysis, aggregation, and reporting of child death data that is maintained and operated by a national center for child death review. (d) 'Data use agreement' means a contract between the Department and a national center for child death review that establishes the terms and conditions for the State and local child fatality review teams’ participation in a child death review case reporting system. (e) 'Health care provider' means: (1) An individual licensed or certified under the Health Occupations Article to provide health care; or (2) A facility that provides health care to individuals. (f) 'Local team' means the multidisciplinary and multiagency child fatality review team established for a county. (g) 'Meeting' includes meetings through telephone conferencing. (h) 'National center for child death review' means a public, private, nonprofit, or governmental organization or entity that is funded or otherwise recognized meetings through telephone conferencing. (h) 'National center for child death review' means a public, private, nonprofit, or governmental organization or entity that is funded or otherwise recognized by the United States Department of Health and Human Services and is responsible for: (1) Developing a child death review case reporting system; (2) Training and serving as a liaison to State agencies participating in the system; and (3) Disseminating national child death review data generated by the system. (i) 'State Team' means the State Child Fatality Review Team. (j) 'Unexpected child death' means a death of a child investigated by the office of the Chief Medical Examiner as required by § 5–309 of this title.
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