Medical Staff Bylaws - Arkansas Children's Hospital

16.1 Confidentiality of InformationARTICLE 16: IMMUNITY FROM LIABILITYInformation with respect to any practitioner, submitted, collected or prepared by a Representative orThird Party for the purpose of reviewing credentials, utilization review, peer review, corrective action,achieving and maintaining quality patient care, reducing morbidity and mortality, contributing to clinicalresearch or other related purposes of the Hospital shall be confidential to the fullest extent permitted bylaw, shall not be disseminated to anyone other than a representative unless required by law or consentedto by such practitioner, and shall not be used in any way except as provided herein or except asotherwise required by law. This information shall become a part of the Medical Staff files and shall notbecome part of any particular patient’s file or of the general Hospital records.16.2 Release from LiabilityEach Practitioner by requesting privileges and/or Medical Staff membership at the Hospital, and /orexercising any privileges at the Hospital, hereby releases, indemnifies and holds harmlessrepresentatives, Third Parties, and any individual authorized by any of the foregoing to performinformation gathering or disseminating functions from any and all claims, demands or actions withrespect to all acts, including without limitation, communications, reports, recommendations, ordisclosures of information performed pursuant to these Bylaws including, without limitation, actsperformed in connection with:A. Applications and Nominations for Medical Staff membership;B. Applications for clinical and admitting privileges;C. Applications for advancement from proctoring status;D. Applications for renewal and reappointment of Medical Staff Membership, clinicalprivileges or admitting privileges;E. Corrective action;F. Summary or automatic suspension or termination of Medical Staff membership and/orprivileges;G. Hearings and appeals;H. Medical care evaluation studies;I. Peer review committees and activities;75