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HB89: Sharing Medical Records for Maternal Health Reviews
This law requires healthcare providers, facilities, and pharmacies to share psychiatric or other clinical records with the Maternal Mortality Review Committee.
What This Bill Does
- It changes rules so that healthcare providers must give psychiatric or other clinical records to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee when asked.
- It allows these groups to release medical records of patients who have died if needed for a review by the committee.
- It removes an old rule requiring inquiries about deaths involving pregnant women to go through specific regional perinatal centers.
Who It Names or Affects
- Healthcare providers
- Hospitals and healthcare facilities
- Pharmacies
- The Maternal Mortality Review Committee
Limits and Unknowns
- This law does not explain exactly how the records will be shared or who specifically can request them.
- It is unclear if there are any exceptions for sharing these specific types of sensitive records.