High Price Is Averting Several Patients For Checking Their Health Archives

According to the privacy rules of HIPAA, all patients are allowed to get a copy related to their health archives from their medical care firms on the demand of the patient. By getting these medical archives, the relevant patients would be able to take more interest and play a positive role in the treatment of their diseases. In addition to that, it could be used by the patients if they are not satisfied by one health care service provider. In this way, the patients can easily show their documents to other hospitals and enjoy the services of other medical firms as well.

The OCR has also provided the important guidelines for all those firms who fall under the HIPAA category. They have mentioned the permitted duties regarding labor, postage related to last year as well as the printing.

Now, if anyone wants to get access to those records, they are supposed to pay a fee of almost 6. 50 dollars. This fee is for the electronic medical information of patients. Now, those entities have decided to charge this money from the patients. But, here we would like to mention that all those firms are not going to charge this money and accept the very same model. Hence, they are charging a very little amount of money for the data they have stored about their patients. They are allowing the patients to get a simple access technology. The problem is that not all those patients have those gadgets to get access to their data through the internet.

In these cases, the firms are left with the option of paper copies of the data but the price to get those copies is certainly high. In most of the cases, the cost of getting these copies is quite expensive. For instance, when we talk about those patients who have serious diseases and have long medical histories. They will have to pay a lot of money to get their medical records. This is why, the patients feel dispirited when it comes to getting the medical records. This is also prevent the patients to outsource their data for the field of research.

 

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Murphy Miller

Murphy Miller is the Editor of Healthcare IT Journal, a leading newspaper in the healthcare information technology. Murphy's work covers a variety of topics including healthcare information technology advancements, health policy and compliance, patient privacy and confidentialy, and the financial aspects of healthcare. As the editor of the Healthcare IT Journal, Murphy Miller provides straightforward, informative content to guide professionals and policymakers in the healthcare and IT fields.

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