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Panel hears bill to set 26-year retention period for hospital medical records
Summary
A senator and hospital representatives told the committee that changing retention from discharge date to creation date and standardizing a 26-year retention period will simplify storage and reduce costs for hospitals.
The Senate Health Care & Wellness Committee heard testimony March 25 on substitute Senate Bill 5,239, which would set hospital medical-record retention at 26 years from the record’s creation date and eliminate differences between adult and minor records.
Jim Morishima, staff to the committee, said the bill makes the retention period “26 years from the date the record was created” and permits hospitals to retain records on paper,…
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