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The Legislature finds and declares that every person having
ultimate responsibility for decisions respecting his or her own
health care also possesses a concomitant right of access to complete
information respecting his or her condition and care provided.
Similarly, persons having responsibility for decisions respecting the
health care of others should, in general, have access to information
on the patient's condition and care.  It is, therefore, the intent
of the Legislature in enacting this chapter to establish procedures
for providing access to health care records or summaries of those
records by patients and by those persons having responsibility for
decisions respecting the health care of others.

Last modified: January 12, 2009