§ 20-9-1206 - Privacy and confidentiality. - Arkansas Statutes

20-9-1206. Privacy and confidentiality.

(a) It is the intent of the General Assembly that a patient's right of confidentiality shall not be violated in any manner under this subchapter.

(b) Social security numbers and any other information that could be used to identify an individual patient shall not be released under this subchapter.

(c) Except for the annual report that shall be a public document available to any person upon request, any data and materials collected or compiled by a health facility or obtained by the Department of Health under this subchapter shall be exempt from discovery and disclosure to the same extent that records of and testimony before committees evaluating quality of medical or hospital care are exempt under 16-46-105(a)(1) and shall not be admissible in any legal proceeding.

(d) Data collected and reported under this subchapter shall not be deemed to have established a standard of care for any purposes in a private civil litigation.