§ 32.1-116.1. Prehospital patient care reporting procedure; trauma registry; confidentiality.
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A. In order to collect data on the incidence, severity and cause of trauma, integrate the information available from other state agencies on trauma and improve the delivery of prehospital and hospital emergency medical services, there is hereby established the Emergency Medical Services Patient Care Information System. The Emergency Medical Services Patient Care Information System shall include the prehospital patient care reporting procedure and the trauma registry.
All licensed emergency medical services agencies shall participate in the prehospital patient care reporting procedure by making available to the Commissioner or his designees the minimum data set on forms prescribed by the Board or locally developed forms which contain equivalent information. The minimum data set shall include, but not be limited to, type of medical emergency or nature of the call, the response time, the treatment provided and other items as prescribed by the Board.
When the patient is the victim of a crime, each licensed emergency medical services agency may disclose the prehospital patient care report to law-enforcement officials upon compliance with § 32.1-127.1:03 and a determination that such disclosure is not in violation of the federal Department of Health and Human Services regulations relating to the electronic transmission of data and patient privacy promulgated as required by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (42 U.S.C. § 1320d et seq.).
The Commissioner may delegate the responsibility for collection of this data to the Regional Emergency Medical Services Councils, Department of Health personnel or individuals under contract to the Department. The Advisory Board shall assist in the design, implementation, subsequent revisions and analyses of the data of the prehospital patient care reporting procedures.
B. All licensed hospitals which render emergency medical services shall participate in the trauma registry by making available to the Commissioner or his designees abstracts of the records of all patients admitted to the institutions' trauma and general surgery services with diagnoses related to trauma. The abstracts shall be submitted on forms provided by the Department and shall include the minimum data set prescribed by the Board.
The Commissioner shall seek the advice and assistance of the Advisory Board and the Committee on Trauma of the Virginia Chapter of the American College of Surgeons in the design, implementation, subsequent revisions and analyses of the trauma registry.
(1987, c. 480; 2002, cc. 568, 658.)