Handles health records, in the U.S. Virgin Islands

Electronic Health Records Act, 19 V.I.C. §§ 160-168 · Read the law's page

• If you are a provider, health care institution, health information exchange or health care group purchaser, do not use or disclose health care information in an individual's electronic health record to another person in violation of territorial or federal law and without the individual's consent (19 V.I.C. § 165(a)).
• If you are a provider or health care institution requesting information in an individual's electronic health record through a record locator service or health information exchange, warrant that the request is for the treatment of the individual, is permitted by the individual's written authorization or is otherwise permitted by territorial or federal law (19 V.I.C. § 165(f)(1)).
• If you operate a health information exchange that maintains a record locator service, keep an audit log of who obtained access, whose information was obtained, from where, what was obtained and when, and on request give an individual the log about their own information, annually and for a reasonable fee (19 V.I.C. § 165(c) and (d)).
• If you operate a record locator service or health information exchange, give individuals a way to exclude their demographic and record-location information, and remove all of a requesting individual's information within thirty days, except as to a provider or institution that has treated the individual and retains its own records (19 V.I.C. § 165(e)).
• If you are a health care provider, facility or governmental unit keeping electronic health records, keep them in legible and retrievable form with adequate data backup, and preserve any paper consent or authorization to disclose in a durable medium, noting its existence and location in the electronic record (19 V.I.C. § 164(c)).