2006 Nebraska Revised Statutes - § 71-5185 — Patient data; confidentiality; immunity.

Section 71-5185
Patient data; confidentiality; immunity.

(1) No patient data received or recorded by an emergency medical service or an out-of-hospital emergency care provider shall be divulged, made public, or released by an emergency medical service or an out-of-hospital emergency care provider, except that patient data may be released to the receiving health care facility, to the department for public health purposes, upon the written authorization of the patient who is the subject of the record, or as otherwise permitted by law. For purposes of this section, patient data means any data received or recorded as part of the records maintenance requirements of the Emergency Medical Services Act.

(2) Patient data received by the department shall be confidential with release only (a) in aggregate data reports created by the department on a periodic basis or at the request of an individual or (b) as case-specific data to approved researchers for specific research projects. Approved researchers shall maintain the confidentiality of the data, and researchers shall be approved in the same manner as described in section 81-666. Aggregate reports shall be public documents. Emergency-medical-service-specific data and out-of-hospital-emergency-care-provider-specific data shall be released only upon the written authorization of the service or the provider who is the subject of the record.

(3) No civil or criminal liability of any kind or character for damages or other relief or penalty shall arise or be enforced against any person or organization by reason of having provided patient data pursuant to this section.

Source:

Laws 1997, LB 138, § 14

Laws 2003, LB 667, § 11

~Reissue Revised Statutes of Nebraska