Florida Hospital Loses Appeal Over Patient’s Access to Records

A Florida hospital’s appeal from the dismissal of its challenge to a state law that allows patients wide access to medical records was tossed out by the Eleventh Circuit, as it didn’t belong in federal court.

Shands Teaching Hospital and Clinics Inc.'s bid for a declaratory judgment holding that the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act completely preempts Florida’s Patients’ Right to Know Law didn’t state a federal question, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit said.

Florida health-care providers have been fighting the state law, known as Amendment 7, since its adoption. Their efforts so far have ...