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Just curious - why is looking up yourself an offense?
by ddinh 9y ago
Just curious - why is looking up yourself an offense?
- opportune 9y agoYou don't really own your medical record, also doctors add notes to your medical record that you may not like. For example your medical record may say that you don't follow up with medication, abuse drugs, have psychiatric/personality problems, etc. which patients could be sensitive about.
- nradov 9y agoThat's not true. In the US at least as an adult you have a legal right to see everything in your medical record.
- dragonwriter 9y agoAnd trying to exercise that right by using tools you have access to as an employee of your own health care provider rather than going through the proper channels that any other patient goes through to request such access (which involve the employer having documentation of the request, and auditability as to the purpose of any access involved in serving that request), is likely to violate internal procedures designed both to protect PHI and assure that all access is within job function.
- wrs 9y agoAlmost, but not quite. There are exceptions, such as psychotherapy notes. (Cite: https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/laws-regulations/index.html https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/laws-reg... section “Access”.)
- jrowley 9y agoNot infrequently there are notes in patients charts that only care providers can see. This practice is becoming frowned upon in some circles however, in lieu of more transparency. I imagine it being really useful for certain scenarios (e.g. mental illness or documentation a sensitive domestic relationship, where you wouldn't want a potentially abuse family member to see comments about their behavior in a relative's chart).
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- dragonwriter 9y agoAbuse of employer resources for personal purposes, probably.