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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>75620</law_id><section_number>32.1-116.1:1</section_number><catch_line>Disclosure of medical records</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="32.1">Health</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="4">Health Care Planning</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="3.1">Emergency Medical Services Patient Care Information System</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Any licensed physician, licensed health care provider, or licensed health care facility may disclose to emergency medical services personnel, an emergency medical services physician, or their licensed parent agency the medical records of a sick or injured <span class="dictionary">person</span> to whom such emergency medical services personnel or emergency medical services physician is providing or has rendered emergency medical care for the purpose of promoting the medical education of the specific <span class="dictionary">person</span> who provided such care or for quality improvement initiatives of their agency or of the emergency medical services system as a whole. Any emergency medical services personnel or emergency medical services physician to whom such confidential records are disclosed shall not further disclose such information to any <span class="dictionary">persons</span> not entitled to receive that information in accordance with the provisions of this section.</p></section></text><history>1988, c. 486; 2007, c. 13; 2008, c. 118; 2015, cc. 502, 503.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
