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 1        AN ACT to amend the Hospital Licensing  Act  by  changing
 2    Section 6.17.

 3        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:

 5        Section 5.  The Hospital  Licensing  Act  is  amended  by
 6    changing Section 6.17 as follows:

 7        (210 ILCS 85/6.17)
 8        Sec.  6.17.   Protection  of  and  confidential access to
 9    medical records and information.
10        (a) Every hospital licensed under this Act shall  develop
11    a  medical record for each of its patients as required by the
12    Department by rule.
13        (b)  All  information  regarding   a   hospital   patient
14    gathered  by  the hospital's medical staff and its agents and
15    employees shall be the property  and  responsibility  of  the
16    hospital  and must be protected from inappropriate disclosure
17    as provided in this Section.
18        (c)  Every hospital shall preserve its medical records in
19    a format and for a duration established  by  hospital  policy
20    and for not less than 10 years, provided that if the hospital
21    has  been  notified  in  writing  by  an  attorney before the
22    expiration of the 10 year  retention  period  that  there  is
23    litigation  pending  in  court  involving  the  record  of  a
24    particular  patient as possible evidence and that the patient
25    is his client or  is  the  person  who  has  instituted  such
26    litigation against his client, then the hospital shall retain
27    the  record  of that patient until notified in writing by the
28    plaintiff's attorney, with the approval  of  the  defendant's
29    attorney  of  record,  that  the case in court involving such
30    record has been concluded or for a period of  12  years  from
31    the date that the record was produced, whichever occurs first
 
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 1    in time.
 2        (d)  No member of a hospital's medical staff and no agent
 3    or  employee  of  a  hospital  shall  disclose  the nature or
 4    details of services provided to  patients,  except  that  the
 5    information   may   be  disclosed  to  the  patient,  persons
 6    authorized  by  the  patient,  the  party  making   treatment
 7    decisions,  if  the  patient is incapable of making decisions
 8    regarding  the  health  services  provided,   those   parties
 9    directly  involved with providing treatment to the patient or
10    processing the payment  for  that  treatment,  those  parties
11    responsible  for  peer  review,  utilization  review, quality
12    assurance, risk  management  or  defense  of  claims  brought
13    against  the  hospital  arising  out  of  the care, and those
14    parties  required  to  be  notified  under  the  Abused   and
15    Neglected   Child   Reporting   Act,  the  Illinois  Sexually
16    Transmissible  Disease  Control  Act,  or   where   otherwise
17    authorized or required by law.
18        (e)   The   hospital's  medical  staff  members  and  the
19    hospital's agents and employees may communicate, at any  time
20    and  in  any  fashion,  with  legal  counsel for the hospital
21    concerning the patient medical record privacy  and  retention
22    requirements  of  this Section and any care or treatment they
23    provided or assisted in providing to any patient  within  the
24    scope of their employment or affiliation with the hospital.
25        (f)  (a)  Each  hospital  licensed  under  this Act shall
26    provide its federally designated organ procurement agency and
27    any tissue bank with which it has an agreement with access to
28    the medical records of deceased patients  for  the  following
29    purposes:
30             (1)  estimating  the  hospital's  organ  and  tissue
31        donation potential;
32             (2)  identifying   the   educational  needs  of  the
33        hospital with respect to organ and tissue donation; and
34             (3)  identifying the  number  of  organ  and  tissue
 
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 1        donations  and  referrals  to  potential organ and tissue
 2        donors.
 3        (g)   (b)  All   hospital   and   patient    information,
 4    interviews,  reports,  statements,  memoranda, and other data
 5    obtained or created by a tissue bank or federally  designated
 6    organ  procurement  agency  from  the  medical records review
 7    described in subsection (f) (a) shall be privileged, strictly
 8    confidential, and used only for the  purposes  put  forth  in
 9    subsection   (f)  (a)  of  this  Section  and  shall  not  be
10    admissible as evidence nor discoverable in an action  of  any
11    kind in court or before a tribunal, board, agency, or person.
12    terms  of  this  Section  shall not be subject to any type of
13    civil or criminal liability or
14        (i) Any individual who  wilfully  or  wantonly  discloses
15    hospital  or  medical record information in violation of this
16    Section is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.  As used in  this
17    subsection,  "wilfully  or wantonly" means a course of action
18    that shows an actual or deliberate intention to cause harm or
19    that, if not intentional, shows an utter indifference  to  or
20    conscious  disregard  for  the  safety  of  others  or  their
21    property.
22    (Source: P.A. 89-393, eff. 8-20-95.)

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