Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that requires health care providers to create, maintain and use electronic medical records.

Highlights:

- Requires the New Mexico telehealth and health information technology commission to develop a plan for health care providers to maintain claims and bills electronically by November 1, 2008 [sec. 4 (A)]. - Requires the New Mexico telehealth and health information technology commission to develop a plan for health care providers to maintain medical records electronically by November 1, 2009 [sec. 5 (A)]. - Establishes that an electronic medical record or signature, for legal purposes, is equal to a hand written medical record or signature (Sec. 6). - Mandates that obtaining electronic medical records must be in compliance with state and federal law [sec. 8 (A)]. - Permits health care providers, institutions and group purchases to provide demographic information contained in medical records to a record locater service [sec. 8 (B)]. - This is a substitute bill offered by the House Judiciary Committee.

Full Bill Text

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that requires health care providers to create, maintain and use electronic medical records.

Highlights:

- Requires the New Mexico telehealth and health information technology commission to develop a plan for health care providers to maintain claims and bills electronically by November 1, 2008 [sec. 4 (A)]. - Requires the New Mexico telehealth and health information technology commission to develop a plan for health care providers to maintain medical records electronically by November 1, 2009 [sec. 5 (A)]. - Establishes that an electronic medical record or signature, for legal purposes, is equal to a hand written medical record or signature (Sec. 6). - Mandates that obtaining electronic medical records must be in compliance with state and federal law [sec. 8 (A)]. - Permits health care providers, institutions and group purchases to provide demographic information contained in medical records to a record locater service [sec. 8 (B)]. - This is a substitute bill offered by the House Judiciary Committee.

Full Bill Text