California Health and Safety Code
§ 1250.05
HSC § 1250.05 Effective Aug 19, 1998Div. 2 · Ch. 2 · Art. 1
Statute text
View on leginfo.ca.gov(a)All general acute care hospitals licensed under this chapter shall maintain a medical records system, based upon current standards for medical record retrieval and storage, that organizes all medical records for each patient under a unique identifier.
(b)This section shall not require electronic records or require that all portions of patients’ records be stored in a single location.
(c)In addition, all general acute care hospitals shall have the ability to identify the location of all portions of a patient’s medical record that are maintained under the general acute care hospital’s license.
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Legislative history
Added by Stats. 1998, Ch. 310, Sec. 12. Effective August 19, 1998.