CHAPTER 184
SB 288 – FINAL VERSION
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2012 SESSION
01/03
SENATE BILL 288
AN ACT relative to medical records and patient information.
SPONSORS: Sen. White, Dist 9; Rep. Reagan, Rock 1; Rep. L. Ober, Hills 27
COMMITTEE: Health and Human Services
AMENDED ANALYSIS
This bill allows health care providers who are required to submit data to the department of health and human services to submit such data through a health information organization under certain circumstances.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
15May2012… 1943h
12-2849
01/03
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twelve
AN ACT relative to medical records and patient information.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
184:1 New Paragraph; Medical Records and Patient Information. Amend RSA 332-I:3 by inserting after paragraph VII the following new paragraph:
VIII. Notwithstanding paragraph I, health care providers otherwise required or authorized by law to submit data to the department of health and human services may do so through a health information organization; provided, that such transmissions meet the same standards for privacy and security of protected health information that apply when such information is exchanged between providers.
184:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved: June 11, 2012
Effective Date: June 11, 2012