According to Patient Engagement HIT, American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) recently posted data guiding patients through the appropriate process of obtaining their medical records from their providers and navigating through HIPPA privacy regulations.
“Per HIPAA, patients may ask to view and obtain a copy of their health records, receive records in paper or electronic copies, and have records sent to another entity for treatment, billing, or operations purposes, explained Mary Butler, the author of the slideshow and associate editor of the Journal of AHIMA.
Patients can request medical record access at their practice’s health information management (HIM) department. They should come prepared with their photo ID and will be asked to sign a waiver verifying their identity.”
Check out the full article here: http://patientengagementhit.com/news/ahima-reviews-the-basics-of-hipaa-compliant-patient-data-access
For daily HIPPA news please visit our HIPAA News sidebar.
Comments are closed, but trackbacks and pingbacks are open.