Immunity from liability for health care provider who uses health information exchange.

1. Law
2. Nevada Revised Statutes
3. Administration of Public Health
4. Immunity from liability for health care provider who uses health information exchange.

A health care provider who with reasonable care relies upon an apparently genuine electronic health record accessed from a health information exchange to make a decision concerning the provision of health care to a patient is immune from civil or criminal liability for the decision if:

1. The electronic health record is inaccurate;

2. The inaccuracy was not caused by the health care provider;

3. The inaccuracy resulted in an inappropriate health care decision; and

4. The health care decision was appropriate based upon the information contained in the inaccurate electronic health record.

(Added to NRS by 2011, 1758; A 2015, 1043)

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