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Committee weighs state changes to electronic health record access and a narrow delay for sensitive results
Summary
House Bill 5-90 would incorporate federal patient access rules into state insurance law and create limited exceptions (including a 72-hour hold) for certain sensitive test results; insurers and large health systems supported the bill with timing amendments while hospitals warned implementation could raise costs.
Representative Greg Oblander told the committee HB 5-90 aims to modernize electronic health record (EHR) access and interoperability and to create state‑level exceptions to federal information‑blocking rules for certain sensitive results.
Adam Meyer, counsel for Cicero Action, highlighted a proposed exemption to avoid delivering sensitive findings (for example, a new cancer diagnosis) as a push notification without clinician context. "That type of news should be delivered with context from…
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