Wisconsin Statutes
Wis. Stat. § 146.836 (2026)
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146.836146.836 Applicability. Sections 146.815, 146.82, 146.83 (4) and 146.835 apply to all patient health care records, including those on which written, drawn, printed, spoken, visual, electromagnetic or digital information is recorded or preserved, regardless of physical form or characteristics.
146.836 AnnotationThis section does not serve as an omnibus statute, intending to supersede in scope all statutes that reference health care records. Rather, the four enumerated statutes cover matters of content and confidentiality, and there is nothing in the text to indicate that its circumference is intended to expand beyond that narrow field. It neither limits the scope of s. 146.83 (3f) (a) nor is it rendered superfluous by the definition of “patient health care records” in s. 146.81 (4). Banuelos v. University of Wisconsin Hospitals & Clinics Authority, 2023 WI 25, 406 Wis. 2d 439, 988 N.W.2d 627, 20-1582.
Notes of Decisions
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cases (2 in the last 5 years), 2021–2023 · leading case: Beatriz Banuelos v. Univ. of Wisconsin Hospitals & Clinics Auth., 2023 WI 25 (Wis. 2023).
Beatriz Banuelos v. Univ. of Wisconsin Hospitals & Clinics Auth., 2023 WI 25 (Wis. 2023). “It advances that such an omission was intentional because a nearby statute, Wis. Stat. § 146.836 , unambiguously provides that only four statutory provisions apply to electronic records.”
Beatriz Banuelos v. Univ. of Wisconsin Hospitals & Clinics Auth., 2021 WI App 70 (Wis. Ct. App. 2021). “83; (2) language in § 146.836; and (3) legislative history. We now explain why UW Health’s reliance on these sources is misplaced.”
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