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Why Is Providing Patients Access to Records So Challenging?

October 9, 2018 Mayuri Kumar

Although HIPAA gives patients the right to access their health records in their preferred format - on paper or electronically - a new study finds discrepancies in the information hospitals provide to patients regarding the release of their records.

"Requesting medical records remains a complicated and burdensome process for patients despite policy efforts and regulation to make medical records more readily available to patients," the researchers noted in the study.

David Holtzman’s comments are featured in this article.

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