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Yes. However, the subpoena won't be honored unless it is properly issued and served, and the medical records are discoverable in pending litigation.
Subpoena's to obtain medication records are necessary in a few instances:Postmortem patients often have records petitioned this way.Cases in which the patient is on trial, criminal or civil are another.Cases in which the patient requires their own records and the covered entity resists.Grand juries can also subpoena medical records.Subpoenas for medical records occur pretty much any time a court or the grand jury needs to see designated record set and there's no other legal way to obtain it.
A custodian of records is the person who keeps all the recorded information for a business or a department in an organization (such as a hospital). When served with a subpoena, this person must sign a sworn affidavit swearing to the authenticity of the records that have been requested by the court.
Subpoena Processing Department MAC S3928-020 P.O. Box 29728 Phoenix, AZ 85038
The Medical Records Department prepares and maintains patient records.
the medical record department or health information department
For your own records, you may sign an ROI (release of information) form. You may have to pay for copying costs, but that should be all.
Medical records can be accessed, against a patient's will, only by legal subpoena (or if an emergency situation occurs requiring access of information that will assist in life-saving measures).
Subpoena Processing Department MAC S3928-020 P.O. Box 29728 Phoenix, AZ 85038
Any court who has need of the records can subpoena them. It must be for a legal purpose. Which is to say, that your nosy neigbor or family members cannot subpoena them just for their own interest..
With a subpoena
The Subpoena phone cannot text records directly from the defendants physical phone unless they do it illegally.