Hitech Medical Records Request Form

The HITECH Act is an excellent tool attorneys can use to obtain medical records at a lower cost. HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) has a Privacy Rule that gives individuals the legal right to obtain copies of their medical records.

The HITECH Act is an excellent tool attorneys can use to obtain medical records at a lower cost. Disability attorneys, workers compensation attorneys and personal injury attorneys spend thousands of dollars each year obtaining the medical records of their clients.

While the HIPAA Privacy Rule gave patients and health plan members the right to obtain copies of their PHI, the HITECH Act increased those rights to include the option of being provided with copies of health and medical records in electronic form, if the covered entity maintains health and medical records in electronic

The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, was signed into law on February 17, 2009, to promote the adoption and meaningful use of health information technology.

Hospitals in Alabama must keep medical records for at least 5 years. Doctors are advised to keep your medical record for at least 10 years.

Health and care records are confidential so you can only access someone else's records if you're authorised to do so. To access someone else's health records, you must: be acting on their behalf with their consent, or. have legal authority to make decisions on their behalf (power of attorney), or.

A request for information from health (medical) records has to be made with the organisation that holds your health records the data controller. For example, your GP practice, optician or dentist. For hospital health records, contact the records manager or patient services manager at the relevant hospital trust.