Legislative Session number- 85

Bill Name: SF1701

1E "Minnesota Health Records Act"; defining certain terms; specifying certain
patients rights regarding access of a patient to patients health records;
requiring a provider to provide patients a written notice concerning practices
and rights with respect to health records, specifying certain duties of the
commissioner of health relating to the development of notice requirements,
specifying certain cost requirements, authorizing providers to withhold health
records from patients under certain conditions; providing for release or
disclosure of health records under certain conditions, specifying certain
consent requirements and exceptions; specifying certain conditions for the
disclosure of health records relating to mental health by a provider,
limitations; permitting a provider or group purchaser to send patient
identifying information and information about the location of the patient's
health records to a record locator service without the consent of the patient,
specifying certain documentation of release requirements; requiring providers to
disclose mental health records to law enforcement agencies and family and
caretakers under certain conditions; providing for the release of health records
to an external researcher solely for purposes of medical or scientific research
under certain conditions; specifying certain methods of release and duties of
the researcher; regulating the release of a videotape copy of a child victim or
alleged victim of physical or sexual abuse without a court order; requiring
providers to release health records created as part of an independent medical
examination to a third party; imposing penalties, providing for allocation of
liability and liability for a record locator service; repealing a current
provision relating to health records access; specifying certain reference
instructions to the revisor of statutes
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