The Florida Senate

455.5656  Practitioner's profiles; confidentiality.--Any patient name or other information that identifies a patient which is in a record obtained by the Department of Health or its agent for the purpose of compiling a practitioner profile is confidential and exempt from the provisions of chapter 119 and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution. Other data received by the department or its agent as a result of its duty to compile and promulgate practitioner profiles are confidential and exempt from the provisions of chapter 119 and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution until the profile into which the data are incorporated or with respect to which the data are submitted is made public. Any information or record that the Department of Health obtains from the Agency for Health Care Administration or any other governmental entity for the purpose of compiling a practitioner profile or substantiating other information or records submitted for that purpose and that was exempt from the provisions of chapter 119 and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution does not lose that character by coming into the possession of the Department of Health, and such information or record continues to be exempt from the provisions of chapter 119 and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution. This section is subject to the Open Government Sunset Review Act of 1995 in accordance with s. 119.15 and shall stand repealed on October 2, 2002, unless reviewed and saved from repeal through reenactment by the Legislature.

History.--s. 1, ch. 97-175.