Requires medical records to be made available to patients in an electronic format through a web portal

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires medical records to be made available to patients in an electronic format through a web portal

Requires medical records to be made available to patients in an electronic format through a web portal Requires medical records to be made available to patients in an electronic format through a web portal and in a format that allows patients to save records to their own device; requires electronic medical records systems to give qualified persons access to records in a single, secure format and to establish policies and procedures to endure confidentiality.

What This Bill Does

• Requires medical records to be made available to patients in an electronic format through a web portal Requires medical records to be made available to patients in an electronic format through a web portal and in a format that allows patients to save records to their own device; requires electronic medical records systems to give qualified persons access to records in a single, secure format and to establish policies and procedures to endure confidentiality.

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Official Summary Text

Requires medical records to be made available to patients in an electronic format through a web portal
Requires medical records to be made available to patients in an electronic format through a web portal and in a format that allows patients to save records to their own device; requires electronic medical records systems to give qualified persons access to records in a single, secure format and to establish policies and procedures to endure confidentiality.

Current Bill Text

S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          3838

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                    January 30, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. HINCHEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation  to  the  release  of
          medical records in an electronic format

          THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 18 of the  public  health  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph (j) to read as follows:
     3    (J)  SUBJECT  TO  THE PROVISIONS OF SUBDIVISION THREE OF THIS SECTION,
     4  UPON THE REQUEST OF A QUALIFIED PERSON, ALL MEDICAL RECORDS REQUIRED  TO
     5  BE  RELEASED  PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION SHALL BE MADE AVAILABLE TO QUALI-
     6  FIED PERSONS IN AN ELECTRONIC FORMAT  THROUGH  A  WEB  PORTAL  AND  SUCH
     7  RECORDS  SHALL  BE PROVIDED IN A FORMAT THAT ALLOWS QUALIFIED PERSONS TO
     8  SAVE THE RECORDS TO THEIR OWN DEVICE.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    10  it shall have become a law.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08155-01-5