S.B. 352

VETOES

Annotated Code of Maryland

(2000 Replacement Volume and 2003 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Health - General
Section 5-602

Annotated Code of Maryland
(2000 Replacement Volume and 2003 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article - Health - General

Section 5-608.1 and 19-344(f)(5)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(2000 Replacement Volume and 2003 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - Health - General

4-301.

(a) In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.

(g) (1) "Medical record" means any oral, written, or other transmission in
any form or medium of information that:

(i) Is entered in the record of a patient or recipient;

(ii) Identifies or can readily be associated with the identity of a
patient or recipient; and

(iii) Relates to the health care of the patient or recipient.

(2) "Medical record" includes any:

(i) Documentation of disclosures of a medical record to any person
who is not an employee, agent, or consultant of the health care provider;

(ii) File or record maintained under § 12-403(b)(13) of the Health
Occupations Article by a pharmacy of a prescription order for drugs, medicines, or
devices that identifies or may be readily associated with the identity of a patient;

who:

(iii) Documentation of an examination of a patient regardless of

1.       Requested the examination; or

2.       Is making payment for the examination; and

(iv) File or record received from another health care provider that:

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