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O.C.G.A. § 24-12-12 — Disclosure of medical records - Use of medical matter disclosed | Georgia Code
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TITLE 24 EVIDENCE

Section 12. Medical and Other Confidential Information, 24-12-1 through 24-12-31.

ARTICLE 2 CONFIDENTIALITY OF MEDICAL INFORMATION

24-12-12. Disclosure of medical records - Use of medical matter disclosed.

Persons to whom confidential or privileged medical matter is disclosed in the circumstances described in Code Section 24-12-11 shall utilize such matter only in connection with the purpose or purposes of such disclosure and thereafter shall keep such matter in confidence. However, nothing in this article shall prohibit the use of such matter where otherwise authorized by law.

(Code 1981, §24-12-12, enacted by Ga. L. 2011, p. 99, § 2/HB 24.)

RESEARCH REFERENCES

ALR.

- Admissibility of hospital chart or other hospital record, 120 A.L.R. 1124.

Evidence: public health record as subject of privilege, 136 A.L.R. 856.

Admissibility of hospital record relating to physician's opinion as to whether patient is malingering or feigning injury, 55 A.L.R.2d 1031.

Physical examination of allegedly negligent person with respect to defect claimed to have caused or contributed to accident, 89 A.L.R.2d 1001.

Waiver of privilege as regards one physician as a waiver as to other physicians, 5 A.L.R.3d 1244.

Discovery, in medical malpractice action, of names of other patients to whom defendant has given treatment similar to that allegedly injuring plaintiff, 66 A.L.R.5th 591.

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