New York A 5316: Requires medical records to be made available to patients in an electronic format through a web portal

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A05316 Summary:

BILL NOA05316A

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SAME ASSAME AS S03838-A

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SPONSORReyes

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Amd §18, Pub Health L

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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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BILL NOA05316A

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02/13/2025referred to health

05/20/2025amend and recommit to health

05/20/2025print number 5316a

01/07/2026referred to health

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 5316--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 13, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. REYES -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
 amended and recommitted to said committee

 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 two new paragraphs (j) and (k) 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 electronic medical records
 5 required to be released pursuant to this section shall be made available
 6 to qualified persons in an electronic format through a web portal and
 7 such records shall be provided in a format that allows qualified persons
 8 to save the records to their own device.
 9 (k) Within one hundred eighty days of the effective date of this para-
 10 graph, the department shall establish rules and regulations, consistent
 11 with state and federal law and regulations, requiring any electronic
 12 medical records system to:
 13 (i) be developed with the capability to enable qualified persons
 14 access to such records in a single, secure electronic format for saving
 15 to their own device and which may be updated automatically by the
 16 provider; and
 17 (ii) establish appropriate policies and procedures to ensure that all
 18 applicable state and federal laws to protect the confidentiality of
 19 individual medical records, including electronic medical records, are
 20 followed.
 21 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 22 it shall have become a law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD08155-03-5

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