Revision: Dec. 22, 2011, midnight
SB 288 – AS INTRODUCED
2012 SESSION
01/03
SENATE BILL 288
AN ACT relative to the exchange of public health information through a health information exchange.
SPONSORS: Sen. White, Dist 9; Rep. Reagan, Rock 1; Rep. L. Ober, Hills 27
COMMITTEE: Health and Human Services
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 exchange 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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
12-2849
01/03
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twelve
AN ACT relative to the exchange of public health information through a health information exchange.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Medical Records and Patient Information. Amend RSA 332-I:3, I to read as follows:
I. Except as provided in paragraph VI, a health care provider or a business associate of a health care provider may transmit an individual's protected health information through the health information organization. [Only a health care provider, for purposes of treatment, may have access to protected health information transmitted through the health information organization.]
2 New Paragraph; Authorizing Certain Health Care Providers to Submit Data to a Health Information Exchange. Amend RSA 332-I:3 by inserting after paragraph VII the following new paragraph:
VIII. 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 exchange; 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.
3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.