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Re:Patients can now access all their health records digitally by ceejayoz on Friday October 07, 2022 @10:01PM (#33129160)
One of my kids' doctors left their practice, and we followed them to the new. The old practice sent us a letter stating patients were not permitted to do so, and they refused to provide records citing a non-compete. (I had more than one sweary phone call with them over this.)

HIPAA has no private right to civil action in these scenarios, so we had to involve the state, and that process took about six months. It's definitely not fast; we were happily in the scenario where the records weren't time critical.

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Re:Patients can now access all their health records digitally by antgly on Saturday October 08, 2022 @12:16AM (#33129749)
What was it specifically about this doctor that you found it worth to get the state involved? Just curious.
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Re:Patients can now access all their health records digitally by ceejayoz on Saturday October 08, 2022 @09:25AM (#33132093)
The practice was doing something both wrong and blatantly illegal that impacted my child's continuity of care. That's well worth going to the effort to get them smacked.
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Re:Patients can now access all their health records digitally by aabaker99 on Saturday October 08, 2022 @12:53AM (#33129869)
Im not in a position to produce the section reference right now but the regulation discussed in the comments, 45 CFR, requires providers are able to transfer medical records from the old practice to the new practice.
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Re:Patients can now access all their health records digitally by mynameisvlad on Saturday October 08, 2022 @03:06AM (#33130415)
Their issue wasn’t with the regulation not existing, they knew full well. The problem is that if they refuse, then what? You have no power as an individual to force them to do it.

And as the parent comment said, you have to involve the state and it takes 6 months.

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Re:Patients can now access all their health records digitally by ceejayoz on Saturday October 08, 2022 @09:26AM (#33132100)
They were entirely able. They were openly using the records as hostages to attempt to prevent patients from leaving their practice.
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