Directs the department of health to update physician profiles for electronic access at least once every ninety days with respect to proceedings for medical misconduct and actions for medical malpractice.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7052
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 30, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. SIMOTAS, COOK, RIVERA, ZEBROWSKI, MONTESANO --
Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GIBSON, HEASTIE, McKEVITT -- read once
and referred to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to electronic access
to physician profiles
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 9 of section 2995-a of the public health law,
2 as added by chapter 542 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 9. The department shall, in addition to hard copy physician profiles,
5 provide for electronic access to and copying of physician profiles
6 developed pursuant to this section through the system commonly known as
7 the Internet. Such electronic access to physician profiles shall be
8 updated at least once every ninety days to reflect changes to such
9 profiles with respect to proceedings for medical misconduct and actions
10 for medical malpractice. Such physician profiles shall be made available
11 in English and other such languages that the commissioner deems appro-
12 priate.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
14 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10423-01-3
