Connecticut 2017 2017 Regular Session

Connecticut Senate Bill SB00447 Introduced / Bill

Filed 01/18/2017

                    General Assembly  Proposed Bill No. 447
January Session, 2017  LCO No. 2833
 *02833*
Referred to Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH
Introduced by:
SEN. LOONEY, 11th Dist. SEN. FASANO, 34th Dist.

General Assembly

Proposed Bill No. 447 

January Session, 2017

LCO No. 2833

*02833*

Referred to Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH 

Introduced by:

SEN. LOONEY, 11th Dist.

SEN. FASANO, 34th Dist.

AN ACT CONCERNING THE BIDIRECTIONAL EXCHANGE OF PATIENT ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

That title 19a of the general statutes be amended to clarify that the use by a hospital of its electronic health records systems to enable the bidirectional exchange of patient electronic health records under section 19a-904c of the general statutes requires a hospital to both accept from and send to community health care providers patient electronic health records, including, but not limited to, diagnostic imaging.

Statement of Purpose: 

To improve the quality of patient care.