Medical Records Held Hostage – From Consumers

A few days ago, my colleague Monica Oss asked an important health care data question: Are EHR Vendors Holding Patient Data Hostage? Its an important question for business-to-business relationships in the industry, and it leads to another: what kind of access do consumers have to their own health records? Turns out, not as much as you might think.

As it’s written, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) (see HIPAA: The Final Act) gives consumers rights over their health information, including the right to get a copy of the information, provide corrections to the information, and . . .