You have the right to request the hospital to make details of your relevant medical records available to you. Hospitals will normally meet your wishes in this regard, except where it would be considered that this would cause serious harm to your physical or mental health. In such circumstances, the information may be communicated through a health professional, normally your family doctor.
Margaret Flettre Skurka has written: 'Health information management in hospitals' -- subject(s): Medical records, Information storage and retrieval systems, Management, Hospitals 'Health information management' -- subject(s): Medical records, Information storage and retrieval systems, Management, Hospitals
An EMR (Electronic Medical Record) is an electronically supported database for medical records. This system is used by medical institutions such as hospitals. The EMR collects and store the medical and health records of all the patients that are entered into it. The information can be inputed and retrieved using a computer.
Crawford quickly refocused Charter on its core business of managed behavioral health-care operations, selling off its general hospitals and many of its psychiatric facilities.
Typically clinics, hospitals, and private physicians are required to maintain records from 7 to 10 years but this is regulated by each individual state medical board so it depends on the state. With the adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHRs), this is likely become an obsolete concept and records will be kept indefinitely.
Cerner is an international health care information technology corporation specializing in providing systems for hospitals and other medical organizations to manage electronic medical records (EMR).
Dorothy Smith Keller has written: 'A psychiatric record manual for the hospital' -- subject(s): Hospital records, Medical records, Mental health services, Psychiatric hospitals
Richard Gartee has written: 'Health information technology and management' -- subject(s): Medical records, Forms and Records Control, Computerized Medical Records Systems, Methods, Data processing 'The Medical Manager: Computerized Practice Management : Student Edition' 'Electronic health records' -- subject(s): Medical records, Forms and Records Control, Electronic Health Records, Methods, Data processing 'The Medical manager' -- subject(s): Data processing, Medical appointments and schedules, Management, Medical offices 'Electronic health records and nursing' -- subject(s): Patient Care Planning, Forms and Records Control, Electronic Health Records, Nursing, Nursing Records, Data processing, Case Reports, Problems and Exercises, Methods 'Health information technology and management' -- subject(s): Medical records, Forms and Records Control, Computerized Medical Records Systems, Methods, Data processing 'The Medical Manager For Windows: Student Edition, Version 10' 'Essentials of electronic health records' -- subject(s): Medical records, Forms and Records Control, Electronic Health Records, Methods, Data processing, Problems and Exercises
With regard to hospital institutions, at this point in time, there is not a central data base for medical records; however, by 2014 institutions (hospitals and private physician practices) are being strongly encouraged to attain an electronic health (medical) record. By acquiring an electronic health record, this will aide in the facilitation of acquiring a central data base in the not too distant future.
The motto of Meridian Medical Arts Charter High School is 'Academic excellence -- Learning for Health Sciences'.
No. But it always depends on their medical records.
Nurses are health professionals who provide medical care in hospitals, in clinics, and for homecare patients. They participate in most areas of healthcare and in many diverse roles, including assisting doctors, providing treatment, keeping medical records, and doing medical research.
Medical records so recent as 1999 are likely to be held as confidential documents and only available to closely-related people, or to lawyers with a subpoena They will be held by doctors' offices, hospitals and other medical services that treated the person, and some may be held by state or county Health Departments.