Request Online Request medical records with our new online tool. Your records are delivered right to you — no need to go and pick them up. Choose from Electronic or Mail delivery. Appropriate fees may apply (State of Illinois Copying Fees Adjustments).
Check their website: Information about how to get your health record may be found under the Contact Us section of a provider's website. It may direct you to an online portal, a phone number, an email address, or a form. Phone or visit: You can also call or visit your provider and ask them how to get your health record.
The law requires “data collectors” that own or licenses personal information for any Illinois resident to notify the Illinois resident if there has been any “breach” in the “data collectors” computer systems.
FOIA is the state Freedom of Information Act. Under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act (5 ILCS 140), records in the possession of public agencies may be accessed by the public upon written request.
Illinois law stipulates that all medical professionals must obtain a patients' informed consent before a procedure which includes disclosing information about the nature of the procedure, the expected and potentially unexpected results, risks, complications, and alternatives.
FOIA contains an exemption for records that, if disclosed, would result in a “clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.” An “unwarranted invasion of personal privacy” means the “disclosure of information that is highly personal or objectionable to a reasonable person and in which the subject's right to privacy ...
In Illinois, medical records must be retained for a minimum of 6 years. Desert River Solutions makes it easy for you to ensure your patients have access to their medical records for the legally required amount of time.
You can submit your medical records request via email or mail to the hospital from which you're seeking the records. If you send via mail, please address the envelope to the attention of the Health Information Management Department at the hospital. You also can stop in and drop off your request in person.
The Illinois Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is designed to ensure that Illinois residents can obtain information about their government. In 2009, Attorney General Lisa Madigan worked with legislators and a diverse group of individuals and organizations to strengthen FOIA and hold government more accountable.
In Illinois you have the right to: See and get a copy of your medical record. a copy of it within 30 days after they receive your request.