Assessment of US Hospital Compliance With Regulations for Patients' Requests for Medical Records.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Although federal law has long promoted patients' access to their protected health information, this access remains limited. Previous studies have demonstrated some issues in requesting release of medical records, but, to date, there has been no comprehensive review of the challenges that exist in all aspects of the request process.

Objective

To evaluate the current state of medical records request processes of US hospitals in terms of compliance with federal and state regulations and ease of patient access.

Design, setting, and participants

A cross-sectional study of medical records request processes was conducted between August 1 and December 7, 2017, in 83 top-ranked US hospitals with independent medical records request processes and medical records depar

SUBMITTER: Lye CT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6324595 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature