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Definition of Terms
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- Provide Access – When a patient possesses all of the tools and information they need to gain access to their health information including, but not limited to, any necessary instructions, user identification information, or the steps required to access their information if they have previously elected to ‘‘opt out’’ of electronic access.
- View – The patient (or authorized representative) accessing their health information online.
- Download – The movement of information from online to physical electronic media.
- Transmission – This may be any means of electronic transmission according to any transport standard(s) (SMTP, FTP, REST, SOAP, etc.). However, the relocation of physical electronic media (for example, USB, CD) does not qualify as transmission.
- Diagnostic Test Results – All data needed to diagnose and treat disease. Examples include, but are not limited to, blood tests, microbiology, urinalysis, pathology tests, radiology, cardiac imaging, nuclear medicine tests, and pulmonary function tests.
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