TITLE 31 HEALTH

Section 33. Health Records, 31-33-1 through 31-33-8.

CHAPTER 25 ARTICLES OF BEDDING

31-33-1. Definitions.

As used in this chapter, the term:

1. "Patient" means any person who has received health care services from a provider.
2. "Provider" means all hospitals, including public, private, osteopathic, and tuberculosis hospitals; other special care units, including podiatric facilities, skilled nursing facilities, and kidney disease treatment centers, including freestanding hemodialysis units; intermediate care facilities; ambulatory surgical or obstetrical facilities; health maintenance organizations; and home health agencies. It shall also mean any person licensed to practice under Chapter 9, 11, 26, 34, 35, or 39 of Title 43.
3. "Record" means a patient's health record, including, but not limited to, evaluations, diagnoses, prognoses, laboratory reports, X-rays, prescriptions, and other technical information used in assessing the patient's condition, or the pertinent portion of the record relating to a specific condition or a summary of the record.

(Code 1981, §31-32-1, enacted by Ga. L. 1984, p. 1680, § 1; Code 1981, §31-33-1, as redesignated by Ga. L. 1985, p. 149, § 31.)