(a) Each ambulance service and invalid vehicle operator, licensed or permitted by the department shall maintain the following:

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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 68-140-319

  • Ambulance: means any privately or publicly owned land or air vehicle that is especially designed, constructed or modified and equipped and is intended to be used for and is maintained or operated for transportation upon the streets, highways or airways in this state for persons who are sick, injured, wounded, otherwise incapacitated, helpless, or in need of medical care. See Tennessee Code 68-140-302
  • Ambulance service: means the principal use of any privately or publicly owned ambulance for the transportation of injured or infirm persons. See Tennessee Code 68-140-302
  • Board: means the Tennessee emergency medical services board. See Tennessee Code 68-140-302
  • Department: means the department of health. See Tennessee Code 68-140-302
  • Invalid vehicle: means any privately or publicly owned vehicle that is maintained, operated and intended to be used to transport persons who are convalescent, or otherwise nonambulatory, and do not require medical treatment while in transit. See Tennessee Code 68-140-302
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Patient: means an individual who, as a result of physical or mental condition, needs medical attention. See Tennessee Code 68-140-302
  • Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in a perceivable form. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Representative: when applied to those who represent a decedent, includes executors and administrators, unless the context implies heirs and distributees. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Run records: means ambulance run reports relative to a response by an ambulance service or invalid vehicle operator during which a patient is evaluated, treated or transported. See Tennessee Code 68-140-302
  • Service: means the provision of organized response by ambulances or emergency response vehicles, or the provision of emergency care on an organized basis. See Tennessee Code 68-140-302
  • State: means the state of Tennessee. See Tennessee Code 68-140-302
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
(1) Run records;

(A) Information required to be contained in such records shall be promulgated by the board;
(B) All information contained in run records relative to, in whole or in part, a patient‘s medical histories, records, reports and summaries, diagnoses, prognoses, records of treatment and medication ordered and given, x-ray and radiology interpretations, physical therapy charts and notes, and lab reports, shall be considered “medical records”;
(C) Notwithstanding another law to the contrary, an ambulance service provider shall furnish to a patient or a patient’s authorized representative a copy of the patient’s run record or records within five (5) business days upon request in writing by the patient or the representative, and shall furnish a copy of a patient’s run record or records to a surveyor employed by the health facilities commission within five (5) business days upon request in writing by the surveyor or health facilities commission staff; and
(D) Except as otherwise provided by law, such patient’s run record or records are not a public record, and this part does not impair any privilege of confidentiality conferred by law on patients, their personal representatives, or heirs. This subdivision (a)(1)(D) does not impair or abridge the right of the patient or the patient’s authorized representative to obtain copies of the patient’s hospital records in the manner provided in § 68-11-304. This subdivision (a)(1)(D) does not prohibit a health facilities commission surveyor investigating an incident in a certified or licensed healthcare facility from obtaining a copy of this record without a subpoena incident to a health facility investigation. This subdivision (a)(1)(D) does not prohibit a patient’s run record or records from being subpoenaed by a court of competent jurisdiction. As used in this subdivision (a)(1), “run record” includes any list of patients that is compiled or maintained by or for such patient’s ambulance service provider, but does not include the dispatch log; and
(2) All other records deemed necessary and promulgated by the board.
(b) The department of health may disclose de-identified data that is collected pursuant to subsection (a), including for the purpose of providing opioid overdose response and resources throughout this state.
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