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Individuals have the broad right to access their health-related information, including medical records, notes, images, lab results, and insurance and billing information. [47] Explicitly excluded are the private psychotherapy notes of a provider, and information gathered by a provider to defend against a lawsuit. [48]
Data theft and alteration has been a major problem in the recent times. Moreover, as far as patient health records are concerned, there are always potential threats of information leakages, data hacking, information destruction, manipulation or even blackmailing of patients by the external or internal users. Since the consequences of ...
The financial industry has been particularly adept at using the Internet to grant individual users access to personal information. Possibly because of the strictness of HIPAA regulations, or the lack of financial incentives for the health care providers, the adoption of patient portals has lagged behind other market segments.
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It has also led to social and ethical issues because basic human rights are considered to be violated by the PCMS, since hospitals and health information services are now more likely to share information with third-party companies. [1] Thus, there needs to be a reformation to specify which hospital personnel have the access to medical records.
In 2019, the US Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCA) promised to enforce patients’ right to access under HIPAA, using the Right of Access Initiative. There have currently already been two settlements with the OCA under the Right of Access Initiative, after companies failed to give patient medical records. [23]
However, medical and healthcare providers have experienced 767 security breaches resulting in the compromised confidential health information of 23,625,933 patients during the period of 2006–2012. [91] The Health Insurance Portability and Accessibility Act requires safeguards to limit the number of people who have access to personal information.