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Expect More Right of Access Scrutiny, Recent Cases Suggest

Published on Mon Aug 22, 2022

If your patients ask for a copy of their medical files, you don’t want to drag your feet on handing over that data. Why? Eleven recent Right of Access cases show that the feds remain fixated on patients’ rights to their protected health information (PHI) in a timely manner. Nuts and bolts: Last month, the HHS Office for Civil Rights [...]
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