Florida Senate - 2009                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 162
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                              LEGISLATIVE ACTION                        
                    Senate             .             House              
                   Comm: RS            .                                
                  03/31/2009           .                                
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       The Committee on Governmental Oversight and Accountability
       (Ring) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment 
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    3         Delete lines 132 - 174
    4  and insert:
    5         (2) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this section, the term:
    6         (a) “Electronic health record” means a record of a person’s
    7  medical treatment which is created by a licensed health care
    8  provider and stored in an interoperable and accessible digital
    9  format.
   10         (b) “Health record” means any information, recorded in any
   11  form or medium, which relates to the past, present, or future
   12  health of an individual for the primary purpose of providing
   13  health care and health-related services.
   14         (c) “Identifiable health record” means any health record
   15  that identifies the patient or with respect to which there is a
   16  reasonable basis to believe the information can be used to
   17  identify the patient.
   18         (d) “Patient” means an individual who has sought, is
   19  seeking, is undergoing, or has undergone care or treatment in a
   20  health care facility or by a health care provider.
   21         (e) “Patient representative” means a parent of a minor
   22  patient, a court-appointed guardian for the patient, a health
   23  care surrogate, or a person holding a power of attorney or
   24  notarized consent appropriately executed by the patient granting
   25  permission to a health care facility or health care provider to
   26  disclose the patient’s health care information to that person.
   27  In the case of a deceased patient, the term also means the
   28  personal representative of the estate of the deceased patient;
   29  the deceased patient’s surviving spouse, surviving parent, or
   30  surviving adult child; the parent or guardian of a surviving
   31  minor child of the deceased patient; or the attorney for the
   32  deceased patient.