U.S Code last checked for updates: Oct 17, 2024
§ 17938.
Business associate contracts required for certain entities

Each organization, with respect to a covered entity, that provides data transmission of protected health information to such entity (or its business associate) and that requires access on a routine basis to such protected health information, such as a Health Information Exchange Organization, Regional Health Information Organization, E-prescribing Gateway, or each vendor that contracts with a covered entity to allow that covered entity to offer a personal health record to patients as part of its electronic health record, is re

(Pub. L. 111–5, div. A, title XIII, § 13408, Feb. 17, 2009, 123 Stat. 271.)
cite as: 42 USC 17938