HIPAA allows patients to request amendments to their medical records. Facilities are not required to automatically make whatever change a patient requests, but they must allow patients to make the requests and follow a specific process for handling them.
Q: Where can the policy be found that shows records can be destroyed as soon as they are scanned into the electronic medical record (EMR)? Would a hospital presume that it is acceptable to destroy paper records after they are scanned into the EMR if electronic storage media is legally acceptable for medical records in its state?
After two delays, the revisions to Federal Policy for the Protection for Human Subjects (45 CFR 46), also known as the “Common Rule,” will now go into effect January 21, 2019.
The University of Michigan Medicine is notifying approximately 3,700 patients about a mailing error that resulted in letters containing personal health information to be sent to the wrong patients.
