A copy of your confidential medical records can be provided to your insurance or sent to an employer, another university, or continuing care provider after you sign a release of information form available from the Health and Wellness Center.
Risks of harm and potential benefits the patient would consider significant for any reason. These will be revealed during your discussion with the patient about what matters to them. Any risk of serious harm, however unlikely it is to occur. Expected harms, including common side effects and what to do if they occur.
Explicit consent It can be given in writing, verbally or through another form of communication, such as sign language. If it is not practicable to either work with anonymous data or to obtain explicit patient consent, then support under the Health Service (Control of Patient Information) Regulations 2002 is required.
Your doctor, insurance company, and other healthcare providers have to ask for your written permission before they can release your personal health information. This is true unless the release is for the purpose of treatment, payment, or healthcare operations.
You must get the patient's consent, which should usually be in writing, to make a recording that will be used in widely accessible public media, whether or not you consider the patient will be identifiable from the recording, other than for the recordings listed in paragraph 10.
A covered entity is permitted, but not required, to use and disclose protected health information, without an individual's authorization, for the following purposes or situations: (1) To the Individual (unless required for access or accounting of disclosures); (2) Treatment, Payment, and Health Care Operations; (3) ...
You can search the records in person at our office during office hours. Records prior to 1969 must be searched in person at the Alameda County Clerk-Recorder's Office. See "In Person" below. Records from 1969 to present are electronically indexed and may be searched for online.
Requests for criminal records must be submitted directly to the Superior Court of Alameda County: .
Records may be requested in the following ways: By submitting a request online via NextRequest. By telephone or visiting a department. By submitting a request in writing via email or US Mail.