vangie-roberts@cox.net
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Does anyone have a better understanding of how this affects Provider offices and an easier read of what exactly this new law means??
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rthomas@impcna.com
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This basically means that patients have to have access to all of their medical records. For example: Right now when a patient accesses their portal they can see everything but the provider's actual clinical/progress notes. They can view a clinical summary of their visits and results of tests. So now we have to allow them to access the clinical/progress notes. We have told our providers that they needed to be very careful now of what and how they document.
vangie-roberts@cox.net
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Thank you for your response. This is my understanding too. My Doctor is closing his practice and is moving out of state. Our EMR wants to charge us a fee to a data extraction to enable access for patients to get their records or any other doctor office. I am not sure or positive if that is something they can do.
rthomas@impcna.com
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You may want to reach out to the malpractice insurance carrier and they should be able to provide some guidance.