Florida Health Information Storage Changes Taking Effect on July 1 -

Foreign Interests in the health care provider environment have generally meant ownership interests of persons from outside of the state in which the healthcare provider operates, rather than foreign countries. Thus, it would be easy to miss the healthcare provisions in the recent Florida legislative bill that was signed into law on May 8, 2023, entitled Interests of Foreign Countries (CS/SB 264). Gov. DeSantis signed legislation, effective on July 1, that requires a health care provider that utilizes a certified electronic health record technology to ensure that all patient information, when stored in an offsite physical or virtual environment, including third-party or subcontracted computer facilities or an entity providing cloud computing services, is physically maintained in the continental United States or its territories or Canada.