HB 683

1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to epidemiological monitoring systems;
3	amending s. 395.3025, F.S.; authorizing the Department of
4	Health to collaborate with and disclose certain
5	information to the United States Centers for Disease
6	Control and Prevention for specified purposes; providing
7	an effective date.
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9	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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11	Section 1.  Subsection (5) of section 395.3025, Florida
12	Statutes, is amended to read:
13	395.3025  Patient and personnel records; copies;
14	examination.-
15	(5)  The Department of Health may examine patient records
16	of a licensed facility, whether held by the facility or the
17	Agency for Health Care Administration, for the purpose of
18	epidemiological investigations. The unauthorized release of
19	information by agents of the department which would identify an
20	individual patient is a misdemeanor of the first degree,
21	punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083. The
22	department may collaborate with, and disclose such information
23	to, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
24	as part of the epidemiological monitoring systems to which both
25	the department and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
26	staff have access, as long as the systems meet federal standards
27	for the protection of personal health information.
28	Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.

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