What's happening
This bill requires clinical laboratory results to be reported only to the requesting health care professional, their agents, or the patient upon written request.
Why it matters
Limits the automatic sharing of lab results. By requiring labs to send test outcomes only to the ordering health care professional (and their agents/employees), the bill reduces the risk of sensitive health information being inadvertently disclosed to unauthorized parties or entities.
Empowers patients with control. Patients retain the right to access their own lab results, but must make a written request, which gives them greater agency while also creating a formal process for protecting their privacy.
Shifts communication responsibility. The bill ensures that health care professionals act as the central point for interpreting and delivering lab results, which may help patients better understand their results and receive appropriate counseling, rather than potentially being confused or alarmed by raw data.
Responds to privacy and security concerns. By tightening the chain of custody for lab data and restricting who can automatically receive results, the legislation addresses growing concerns about medical data breaches and the misuse of personal health information.
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History
- Referred to health
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STATE OF NEW YORK
4735
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 5, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, BUCHWALD, McDONOUGH, CAHILL, COOK -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CROUCH -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the reporting of the results of clinical laboratory services performed at the request of a qualified health care practitioner
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 576-d to read as follows:
§ 576-d. Reporting of clinical laboratory results and findings. The results and findings of any clinical laboratory service, requested by a qualified health care professional, shall only be reported by the laboratory performing such service to the health care professional making the request for the laboratory service, his or her agents or his or her designated employees. Provided, however that such findings and results shall be reported, at any time to the individual to whom the clinical laboratory services relate or were performed upon, upon written request of the individual submitted to the clinical laboratory or the qualified health care professional.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09054-01-9
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