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2018 Revised Code of Washington
Title 70 - PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY
70.02 Medical records—Health care information access and disclosure.
70.02.150 Security safeguards.
Universal Citation: WA Rev Code § 70.02.150 (2018)
RCW 70.02.150 Security safeguards.
A health care provider shall effect reasonable safeguards for the security of all health care information it maintains.
Reasonable safeguards shall include affirmative action to delete outdated and incorrect facsimile transmission or other telephone transmittal numbers from computer, facsimile, or other databases. When health care information is transmitted electronically to a recipient who is not regularly transmitted health care information from the health care provider, the health care provider shall verify that the number is accurate prior to transmission.
[ 2001 c 16 § 2; 1991 c 335 § 701.]
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