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House panel advances bill to extend parental online access to minors’ records at state hospitals
Summary
A House health subcommittee voted to report House Bill 2399 after debate and testimony that the measure would require state-owned hospitals that are exempt from licensure to provide parents the same online access to minors’ electronic health records that licensed hospitals must provide.
House Bill 2399, introduced by Delegate Scott, would extend to all hospitals in Virginia the existing requirement that parents and guardians have access to a minor’s electronic health records when hospitals provide online patient portals. The bill responds to constituent reports that parents lost online access to records for children treated at hospitals owned or operated by the Commonwealth, which are exempt from state licensure.
Delegate Mark Scott told the subcommittee the bill copies language from the licensure statute that applies to privately licensed hospitals and places it in the statutory section that governs health-record access for entities currently…
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