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If you're in the US, call your doc and mention that this may be a violation of the 21st Century Cures Act, as it is preventing or interfering with the access, e
by JshWright 5y ago
If you're in the US, call your doc and mention that this may be a violation of the 21st Century Cures Act, as it is preventing or interfering with the access, exchange, or use of electronic health information.
It would be a stretch to call this an outright violation (as they could satisfy the requirement by printing the information you want and mailing it to you...), but it's a trendy topic in healthcare right now, so it might be enough of a motivator.
- JumpCrisscross 5y ago> call your doc and mention that this may be a violation of the 21st Century Cures Act Unless you’re a lawyer, don’t do this. Empty threats are more frequently sorted into the crackpot category than the kind one responds to.
- JshWright 5y agoWhile this is generally true, in my experience anything related to healthcare regulations are a lot less likely to get written off. Generally the failure mode is quite the opposite (people assume all sorts of things about, e.g. HIPAA, that aren't true). EDIT: I also wouldn't characterize it as an "empty threat", as it is neither empty (I think a good faith argument could be made that this needlessly disrupts patient access to information), nor a threat (it's just making them aware of something).
- pyuser583 5y agoMore realistically, they’ll refer you to their lawyer.