Patient Privacy:
Be Ready To Give Patients Their Records Electronically
Published on Fri Oct 25, 2013
Beware this frequently missed HIPAA mandate. You’re violating new HIPAA requirements if you only give out paper records to patients who request electronic ones. New HIPAA rules and HITECH Act provisions are giving patients more and more ownership over health records. You always need to have a process for people to ask for copies of the information in their designated [...]