HIPAA regulations strictly control access to a deceased spouse’s medical records, including those from Medicare. You can only access these records if you legally represent their estate or have ...
An incorrect diagnosis, scan or lab result may have been inserted into a record. This story is from Kaiser Health News. When Liz Tidyman’s elderly parents moved across the country to be closer to ...
A study of 83 leading hospitals finds barriers to exercising your legal right. This is a Kaiser Health news story. Medical records can be hard for patients to get, even in this digital information age ...
Parents may choose to share their medical records with family, friends, or a specific organization. To do this, they must complete a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) release ...
Sheree Lloyd does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...
Fulton County, Georgia, is experiencing an unprecedented crisis of jail-attributable deaths—deaths to which the difficult conditions of incarceration were a contributor—in its carceral facilities.