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Medical Records Review Services for Legal Industries
Under the OSHAct, what are your rights with regard to the review of medical records, test results, and accident/illness reports?
This is somewhat complicated, but you, as the wife, usually have a right for the hospice doctor to review the medical records with you.
Under the OSHAct, what are your rights with regard to the review of medical records, test results, and accident/illness reports?
Under the OSHAct, what are your rights with regard to the review of medical records, test results, and accident/illness reports?
Yes. Barring psychotherapy notes, patients are entitled to review and request changes to their medical records, under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
All medical records are exclusive to the individual or to doctors or others who have been given specific permission by the individual to review the records. Anyone who accesses an individual's personal medical record without permission is in violation of The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996.
For health care providers you've seen who have started to use a patient portal, you can see your medical records online. As of this writing (2012), a small but increasing number of providers have set up patient portals. Contact yours to find out if your records are available for review, or when you can expect them to be online.
The OSHA regulation on the topic states that you as an employee have a right to review your medical records held by or for your employer. There are certain limitations but basically you or your designated representative have the right to see the records at any reasonable time. You do not, however, have a right to see someone else's medical records unless they give written permission.
Very little of the health record privacy law (HIPAA) applies to employers, but this is in there: employers cannot compel you to reveal medical RECORDS except those needed to claim a medical-based benefit like FMLA, workers comp, or ADA accommodation. The employer can compel you on pain of discharge to demand necessary records from your doctor, who cannpot refuse YOU. The employer cannot demand records from your doctor, but can hire a doctor to demand the records and review them.
should not affect access by patient- in fact, it tends to confirm for providers that patients records ARE theirs for review
should not affect access by patient- in fact, it tends to confirm for providers that patients records ARE theirs for review