Archive: Personal Health Decisions

  • Resolution on Maintaining Confidentiality of Patient-Identifiable Information March 15, 2013

    Resolution on Maintaining Confidentiality of Patient-Identifiable Information Model Resolution WHEREAS, recent developments in the area of information technology have stimulated public concern over confidentiality of patient-identifiable medical information; and WHEREAS, the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability act (HIPAA) requires the development of detailed federal standards with respect to the privacy of individuality identifiable health information; and WHEREAS, confidentiality requirements should be comprehensive in assuring patients that information identifying them and their medical condition or predisposition to any specific condition is confidential information; and WHEREAS, state and federal policies must accomplish twin objectives of protecting the privacy of individual patients, […]

  • Medical Treatment Decision Act March 15, 2013

    Medical Treatment Decision Act Model Legislation Section 1. Title.  This Act shall be known and may be cited as the “Medical Treatment Decision Act.” Section 2. Findings. The legislature finds that a competent adult has been traditionally reorganized as having the right to accept or reject medical treatment concerning his person.  The legislature also finds that recent advances in medical technology have made it possible to prolong dying through the use of extraordinary, extreme, or radical medical or surgical procedures.  The use of such medical or surgical procedures often involves patients who are unconscious or otherwise incompetent to accept or […]