Medical confidentiality: authorizations.

Existing law requires a person or entity that wishes to obtain medical information from a provider of health care, health care service plan, or contractor regarding a patient of the provider of health care, or an enrollee or subscriber of a health care service plan, to obtain a valid authorization for the release of the information, a requirement for which is that the authorization is handwritten by the person who signs it or is in typeface no smaller than 14-point type. This bill would also allow the authorization to be an electronic equivalent of the required type face.