For purposes of this chapter:

(a) “Authorized user” means a person authorized by the authority to submit information to, or to receive information from, the POLST eRegistry, including health care providers, as defined in § 4781 of the Probate Code, and their designees.

Terms Used In California Health and Safety Code 1861

  • Person: means any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, or company. See California Health and Safety Code 19
  • Probate: Proving a will

(b) “CEDRS” means the California Emergency Medical Services Data Resource System.

(c) “POLST” means a Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment form that fulfills the requirements, in any format, of § 4780 of the Probate Code.

(d) “POLST eRegistry” means the registry established pursuant to this chapter to make electronic, in addition to other modes of submission and transmission, POLST information available to authorized users in conjunction with, and as a part of, CEDRS.

(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 143, Sec. 15. (AB 133) Effective July 27, 2021.)