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HOUSE BILL NO. 247
Offered January 9, 2008
Prefiled December 28, 2007
A BILL to require hospitals that engage in diversion and use electronic health records to have the information technology capability to access electronic health records of other hospitals engaging in diversion in their emergency departments.
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Patron-- O'Bannon
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Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1.  § 1. That every hospital that (i) engages in diversion at any time and (ii) uses electronic health records shall have the information technology capability to access electronic health records of other hospitals engaging in diversion in their emergency departments.