                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DISCLOSURE OF MEDICAL RECORDS (§ 32.1-116.1:1)

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 person 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
person 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 persons not entitled to receive that information in accordance with the
provisions of this section.

HISTORY: 1988, c. 486; 2007, c. 13; 2008, c. 118; 2015, cc. 502, 503.