Enhancing Patient Care Continuums

Enhancing Patient Care Continuums; Providing that patients have a right to expect their health care records to be shared between their health care providers; revising the purpose and functions of the Office of Rural Health; requiring rural health networks to use health information exchange systems for specified purposes; revising criteria for Department of Health approval of certain cooperative agreements in certified rural health networks; requiring hospitals to use health information exchange systems to provide certain notification to a patient’s primary care provider, if any, etc.