Bill Text: CT SB00447 | 2017 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An Act Concerning The Bidirectional Exchange Of Patient Electronic Health Records.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-04-11 - File Number 520 [SB00447 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2017-SB00447-Introduced.html

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General Assembly		Proposed Bill No. 447
January Session, 2017		LCO No. 2833
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Referred to Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH
Introduced by:
SEN. LOONEY, 11th Dist. SEN. FASANO, 34th Dist.

AN ACT CONCERNING THE BIDIRECTIONAL EXCHANGE OF PATIENT ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

That title 19a of the general statutes be amended to clarify that the use by a hospital of its electronic health records systems to enable the bidirectional exchange of patient electronic health records under section 19a-904c of the general statutes requires a hospital to both accept from and send to community health care providers patient electronic health records, including, but not limited to, diagnostic imaging.

Statement of Purpose:

To improve the quality of patient care.