Rule 24 - MEDICAL AND HOSPITAL RECORDSA. Copies of all relevant medical and hospital records to be introduced at trial shall be provided to opposing parties in a timely manner as required by Rule 19.B. The Court recognizes that records subject to this rule are widely accepted as exceptions to the hearsay rule and will entertain only the objection that the records are not properly identified. A party wishing to object to the records as not being properly identified shall notify the offering party and the Court, in writing, of the objection within ten (10) days of the receipt of the records. The offering party shall promptly arrange the deposition of the custodian of the records. The inquiry at deposition shall be limited to the identification of the offered records. If the offered records are ultimately admitted in evidence, the cost of the deposition shall be assessed against the objecting party. If the offered records are ultimately excluded from evidence, the cost of the deposition shall be assessed against the offering party.C. For purposes of this rule, "medical or hospital records" means the regularly kept records of any hospital, clinic, emergency room or other treatment facility and the office records or notes, including summaries, of any physician as defined by 85 O.S., Section 326(D). "Medical and hospital records" do not include any statement, letter, memorandum or report prepared by a physician specifically for use at trial.D. Medical and hospital records offered in evidence in accordance with this rule are to be received in evidence for historical purposes only.Okla. Stat. tit. 85, § 24
Adopted by order of the Supreme Court, 1997 OK 130, eff. 11/1/1997; Amended by order of the Supreme Court, 2000 OK 13, eff. 4/15/2000; Amended by order of the Supreme Court, 2002 OK 6, eff. 3/1/2002; Renumbered from former Rule 20A and amended by order of the Supreme Court, 2006 OK 6, eff. 1/30/2006. Amended by order of the Supreme Court, 2012 OK 19, eff. 3/6/2012.