Section 2997. Patient privacy  


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  • 1. The department shall examine state laws
      protecting the privacy of individual patient  data,  and  determine  the
      necessity of supplementing existing protections.
        2.  The  department  shall  examine federal initiatives protecting the
      privacy of  individual  patient  data,  and  such  federal  initiatives'
      potential preemptive effect on state law protections.
        3.  The  department  shall  provide  a  report  of its findings to the
      governor and the legislature within eighteen  months  of  the  effective
      date of this section.