Access Medical Records State Emergency Medical Services Patient Care Database

EMS patient information - health information network access - HIPAA limitations. The department of public health and environment must provide individualized patient information from the department's EMS agency patient care database to health information organization networks for uses allowed under the federal "Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996" (HIPAA). The department must provide the information through contracts with health information organization networks but must limit access and use of patient information by these networks to only the purposes allowed under HIPAA.
(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)