Your guide to getting medical records and documents from one doctor’s office or clinic to a new healthcare professional. This can be a multi-step process that isn’t always as easy as it may seem. If ...

Some documents you collect during discovery and litigation preparation are straightforward—like deeds, trial transcripts, or insurance policies. Medical records, on the other hand, are not always as ...

The Office of Civil Rights (OCR), the federal entity overseeing HIPAA compliance and enforcement, continues to make patient requests to access ...

Before electronic medical records (EMRs) digitized patient charts, physicians often ran out of physical storage space and had to destroy specific records. However, even the best medical software has ...

Parents may choose to share their medical records with family, friends, or a specific organization. To do this, they must complete a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) release ...

In recent years, computerization of patient records has increased at a moderate rate and this trend is likely to continue, particularly as technology improves and becomes more affordable and as the ...

The patient record touches, in some way, virtually everyone associated with providing, receiving, or reimbursing health care services. This wide range of application and use has led to efforts to ...