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Patient Access to Medical Records Under HIPAA: Significant Reform Needed

by Daniel J. Solove Recently, I wrote about the challenges in accessing health information about family members.  In this post, I will explore patients’ access to their own medical records. HIPAA doesn’t handle patient access to medical records very well. There are many misunderstandings about patient access under HIPAA that make it quite difficult for […]

HIPAA’s Friends and Family Network: Access to Health Information

by Daniel J. Solove Suppose your elderly mother is being treated at the hospital for a heart condition. Your mother tells her doctor that you can have access to her health information. The doctor, however, doesn’t disclose the information to you. The doctor thinks that you can only have the information with a signed written […]