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Health & Safety Code 121022(e) (2006; amended by AB 2541, 2010)

Summary:

As per 121025, all reported cases of HIV infection shall not be disclosed, discovered or compelled to be produced in any civil, criminal, administrative, or other proceeding.

Keywords:
HIV/AIDS, judicial
Associated Federal Law(s): 
164.512(e)
164.306

164.306

Security standards: General rules : General requirements: 1) Ensure the confidentiality of all electronic protected health information; 2) Protect against any reasonably anticipated threats to the security or integrity of such information; 3) Protect against any reasonably anticipated uses or disclosures of such information; 4) Ensure compliance by the workforce.

164.306(a)

Security standards: General rules : General requirements: 1) Ensure the confidentiality of all electronic protected health information; 2) Protect against any reasonably anticipated threats to the security or integrity of such information; 3) Protect against any reasonably anticipated uses or disclosures of such information; 4) Ensure compliance by the workforce.

164.306(d)

Security standards: General rules : Implementation specifications - required or addressable.

Health & Safety Code 1374.30(n) (2001)

Summary:

Upon notice from the department that an enrollee has applied for an independent medical review, the plan or its contracting providers shall provide the requisite medical records (specified in (1) to (3)) to the independent medical review organization within 3 days. The confidentiality of any enrollee information shall be maintained in accordance with applicable laws.

Keywords:
boards, insurer, enrollee, treatment information
Associated Federal Law(s): 
164.508(a)
164.306(a)

Health & Safety Code 102778

Summary:

The department shall implement an Internet-based electronic death registration system for the creation, storage, and transfer of death registration information. The electronic death registration system shall protect the proper use of the death registration information created, stored, and transferred within the system; and shall be subject to any limitation placed on the accessibility and release of personally identifying information contained in those death records by any other provision of law or subsequently enacted legislation.

Keywords:
electronic health records, decedent, official records
Associated Federal Law(s): 
164.306(a)

Health & Safety Code 123148(d)

Summary:

The electronic provision of [clinical lab] test results shall be in accordance with any applicable federal law governing privacy and security of electronic personal health records. However, any state statute that governs privacy and security of electronic personal health records, shall apply ... and prevail over federal law if federal law permits.

Keywords:
electronic health records, federal-state, laboratory tests
Associated Federal Law(s): 
160.203
164.306(a)

Health & Safety Code 103527 (2002; amended by AB 130, 2009)

Summary:

The State Registrar shall appoint a Vital Records Protection Advisory Committee to study and make recommendations to protect individual privacy, inhibit identity theft, and prevent fraud involving birth, death, and marriage certificates while providing needed access to birth, death, and marriage record information to those seeking it for legitimate purposes.

Keywords:
safeguards, official records
Associated Federal Law(s): 
164.306

Health & Safety Code 123148(f)

Summary:

Certain clinical lab test results shall not be conveyed by Internet or other electronic means.

Keywords:
electronic health records, laboratory tests , safeguards
Associated Federal Law(s): 
164.306(a)

Health & Safety Code 123149

Summary:

Use of electronic recordkeeping to store patient records shall ensure safety and integrity of the records at least to the extent of hard copy records. Upon request, access to electronically stored patient records shall be made available to the Division of Licensing and Certification staff. Policies and procedures should be developed to include safeguards for confidentiality of electronically stored patient health records

Keywords:
agency, electronic health records, records maintenance
Associated Federal Law(s): 
164.306