- HealthLynked, a leading provider of healthcare technology solutions, recently launched its new online medical record request form, integrated with DocuSign
- The new feature allows patients to seamlessly and securely request their medical records from doctors’ offices, hospitals, and laboratories with just a few clicks
- Through the feature, HealthLynked aims to solve inefficiencies and security issues affecting the flow of health information, helping patients share their medical records with their doctors directly
- The HIPAA, through the Privacy Rule, aims to allow the flow of health information that can help health care providers to provide high-quality health care and to protect the public’s health and well-being
The Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information (“Privacy Rule”), issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) to implement the requirement of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) of 1996, aims to, among others, allow the “flow of health information needed to provide and promote high-quality health care and to protect the public’s health and well-being.” It permits crucial uses of health information while protecting the privacy of patients (https://ibn.fm/S9hpp).
However, a 2018 Yale study found that American hospitals complicate the process by which patients access medical records. The study reported that many top hospitals in the country “are making it unduly confusing or expensive for patients to gain access to their own medical records.” This is despite the…
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