Bill Text: CA AB2723 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Bill 2723 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Medical information: integrity.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-03-25 - Referred to Com. on HEALTH. [AB2723 Detail]

Download: California-2009-AB2723-Introduced.html

BILL NUMBER: AB 2723	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Blumenfield

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

   An act to amend Section 130201 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to public health.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2723, as introduced, Blumenfield. Medical information:
integrity.
   Existing law establishes the Office of Health Information
Integrity within the California Health and Human Services Agency to
ensure the enforcement of state law mandating confidentiality of
medical information, as defined, and to impose administrative fines
for the unauthorized use of medical information.
   This bill would specify that the term "medical information" for
these purposes includes personal health records and individually
identifiable information.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 130201 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
   130201.  For purposes of this division, the following definitions
apply:
   (a) "Director" means the Director of the Office of Health
Information Integrity.
   (b) "Medical information" means the term as defined in subdivision
(g) of Section 56.05 of the Civil Code.  "Medical information"
includes, but is not necessarily limited to, "personal health records"
and "individually identifiable information" as those terms are used
in Section 56.05 of the Civil Code. 
   (c) "Office" means the Office of Health Information Integrity.
   (d) "Provider of health care" means the term as defined in
subdivision (j) of Section 56.05 and Section 56.06 of the Civil Code.

   (e) "Unauthorized access" means the inappropriate review or
viewing of patient medical information without a direct need for
diagnosis, treatment, or other lawful use as permitted by the
Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (Part 2.6 (commencing with
Section 56) of Division 1 of the Civil Code) or by other statutes or
regulations governing the lawful access, use, or disclosure of
medical information.