SSB 1117

The bill also prohibits DPH under Code chapter 147A (Emergency medical care —— trauma care) from collecting, storing, or requiring the submission of emergency medical services ambulance or transport documents or reports, including patient care reports, that contain a patient’s medical information, unless otherwise authorized in writing by the patient or another person duly authorized to act on behalf of the patient. However, such reports and documents are subject to discovery, subpoena, or other means of legal compulsion. The bill defines “patient care report” as a computerized or written report that documents the assessment and management of a patient by an emergency care provider in an out-of-hospital setting; and “patient’s medical information” as any information in an emergency medical services ambulance or transport document or report, including a patient care report, that identifies a patient who is the subject of the information or with respect to which there is a reasonable basis to believe that the information could be used to identify the patient. HOSPITAL DATA. _____ certain inpatient, outpatient, and ambulatory data collected from hospitals, unless otherwise authorized or required by state or federal law, in addition to the social security number, the name of the individual subject of the data shall not be included in data collected from hospitals by DPH.