(a) Any facility or individual under contract with the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services to provide behavioral health services shall transmit information and records, if requested, to the Commissioner of Mental Health and Addiction Services pursuant to his obligation under section 17a-451 to maintain the overall responsibility for the care and treatment of persons with psychiatric disorders or substance use disorders. The Commissioner of Mental Health and Addiction Services may collect and use the information and records for administration, planning or research, subject to the provisions of section 52-146g. The Commissioner of Mental Health and Addiction Services may enter into contracts within the state and into interstate compacts for the efficient storage and retrieval of the information and records.
(b) Identifiable data shall be removed from all information and records before issuance from the individual or facility which prepared them, and a code, the key to which shall remain in possession of the issuing facility and be otherwise available only to the Commissioner of Mental Health and Addiction Services for purposes of planning, administration or research, shall be the exclusive means of identifying patients. The key to the code shall not be available to any data banks in which the information is stored or to any other persons, corporations or agencies, private or governmental.
(1969, P.A. 819, S. 6; P.A. 82-160, S. 68; P.A. 95-257, S. 11, 13, 58; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-8, S. 31, 88.)
History: P.A. 82-160 rephrased the section and inserted Subsec. indicators; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner, Department and Board of Mental Health with Commissioner, Department and Board of Mental Health and Addiction Services, effective July 1, 1995; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-8 amended Subsec. (a) to apply section to individuals under contract with the department to provide behavioral health services, to delete provision re approval of Board of Mental Health and Addiction Services and to replace reference to the mentally ill with reference to persons with psychiatric or substance abuse disorders and amended Subsec. (b) to change “mental health facility” to “individual or facility”, effective July 1, 1997.
Cited. 169 C. 223. Psychiatrist-patient privilege not waived and the testimony of psychiatrist hired by state, but not as a result of court order, held inadmissible. 178 C. 626. Cited. 191 C. 453; 211 C. 555; 236 C. 625; 238 C. 313.
Cited. 1 CA 384; 14 CA 552; 19 CA 304; 24 CA 287.
Structure Connecticut General Statutes
Section 52-143. - Subpoenas for witnesses. Penalty for failure to appear and testify.
Section 52-144. - Form of subpoena.
Section 52-145. - Certain witnesses not disqualified. Credibility.
Section 52-146. - Wife as a witness against her husband.
Section 52-146b. - Privileged communications made to clergymen.
Section 52-146c. - Privileged communications between psychologist and patient.
Section 52-146e. - Disclosure of communications.
Section 52-146f. - Consent not required for disclosure, when.
Section 52-146g. - Access to communications and records by persons engaged in research.
Section 52-146i. - Labeling of confidential records.
Section 52-146j. - Judicial relief.
Section 52-146l. - Disclosure of privileged communication by interpreter prohibited.
Section 52-146t. - Protection from compelled disclosure of information obtained by news media.
Section 52-147. - Written statements in actions to recover damages for personal injuries.
Section 52-148. - Depositions in civil actions and probate proceedings.
Section 52-148a. - Taking of depositions. When court order necessary.
Section 52-148b. - Notice of taking of deposition.
Section 52-148d. - Requirements for taking of depositions. Party subject to taking of deposition.
Section 52-149. - Depositions of persons sixty years old.
Section 52-149a. - Depositions of medical witnesses.
Section 52-150. - Interested persons not to write depositions.
Section 52-151. - Custody and opening of depositions.
Section 52-152. - Depositions of persons in armed forces.
Section 52-156. - Preservation of the testimony of a witness.
Section 52-156a. - Deposition to perpetuate testimony before action or pending appeal.
Section 52-157. - Taking of deposition may be adjourned.
Section 52-158. - Deposition may be used in Appellate Court.
Section 52-159. - Deposition may be used in another action.
Section 52-161. - Transcript of stenographer's or court reporter's record part of official record.
Section 52-161a. - Subpoenaing of court reporter as witness.
Section 52-161b. - Subpoenaing of crime victim by pro se litigant. Court authorization required.
Section 52-162. - Exemplification of laws of other states.
Section 52-163a. - Determination of the law of jurisdictions outside this state.
Section 52-164. - Reports of judicial decisions of other states.
Section 52-165. - Records of corporations and public offices.
Section 52-166. - Orders of state officials.
Section 52-167. - Corporation certificates; copies as prima facie evidence.
Section 52-168. - U.S. revenue stamps on recorded documents.
Section 52-169. - Protests of bills and notes.
Section 52-170. - Records of directors of health and religious societies.
Section 52-171. - Sworn copies of files and records.
Section 52-172. - Declarations and memoranda of deceased persons.
Section 52-173. - Entries admissible for those claiming title from decedent.
Section 52-175. - Entries and memoranda of mentally ill and incapable persons.
Section 52-175a. - Negligence action, construction of acts of blind person.
Section 52-176. - Promise to pay barred debt to be in writing.
Section 52-177. - Action on bond. Burden of proving value of principal's interest.
Section 52-178. - Adverse party or officer, agent or employee thereof may be compelled to testify.
Section 52-178a. - Physical examination of plaintiff, when.
Section 52-179. - Seal and its equivalent.
Section 52-180. - Admissibility of business entries and photographic copies.
Section 52-180a. - Admissibility of out-of-state hospital record or bill for treatment.
Section 52-180c. - Admissibility of evidence of sexual misconduct.
Section 52-181. - Evidence of death or capture.
Section 52-182. - Presumption of family car or motorboat in operation by certain person.
Section 52-183. - Presumption of agency in motor vehicle operation.
Section 52-184a. - Evidence obtained illegally by electronic device inadmissible.
Section 52-184b. - Failure to bill and advance payments inadmissible in malpractice cases.