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Clinics, as healthcare providers, have a legal duty of care to their patients. They are responsible for collecting, storing, and protecting patients' personal data, including medical records, in compliance with data protection laws.
Medical records can be stored digitally as electronic health records (EHRs) or physically as paper documents. Typically, files you use regularly are more accessible as an EHR.
However, while patients own the information, the physical or electronic medical record, whether stored as paper charts or in electronic health records (EHRs), is typically owned by the healthcare provider or the facility that created it. This could include hospitals, clinics, or individual physicians.
Background Ownership of Medical Records in California In California, medical records belong to a hospital or a doctor. With this ownership comes certain ethical and professional obligations to patients. Patients have the right to access their medical records in certain circumstances.
Under the Freedom of Information Act 1992, you can access your WA Health medical records. However consideration needs to be given to s. 28 of the Freedom of Information Act 1992 in the disclosure of information that may have an adverse effect on the physical or mental health of a patient.
Primary Custodians of Patient Medical Records Maintaining and safeguarding medical records primarily falls on healthcare providers and facilities. Physicians, nurses, hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare professionals play instrumental roles as custodians of these records.
A nurse starts every encounter by properly greeting the patient before the physician does. This is to ensure the patient's comfort and to understand the basic details of why the patient is currently in the hospital.
As long as a patient has not made this request, hospitals can release the following information without obtaining prior patient authorization: Name—Information can be released to those people (media included) who ask for the patient by name. Condition—A one-word explanation of the patient's condition can be released.
Call the hospital main number and give the patient's name (and unit and room number if you know it). Ask to be connected to the patient's room. Remember: you may need to keep the call short as the patient may tire easily.
The most common are Elective Admissions, Direct Admissions, Holding Admissions, and Emergency Admissions. Depending on the needs, these admissions bring different levels of medical care.