It seems hard to imagine this now, but three decades ago, before HIPAA was signed into law, a patient\u2019s legal right to amend or correct a mistake in his or her records was severely limited. Only patients who were treated at healthcare organizations operated by the federal government, and patients who resided in states that had passed legislation granting patients this specific right, had the legal right to amend their protected health information (PHI) in their medical records. Upon passage of the HIPAA Privacy Rule, ALL patients were given the legal right to amend their PHI. The scope of the HIPAA patient right to amend PHI is discussed below.<\/p>\n
Under the HIPAA<\/a> Privacy Rule, covered entities must honor certain patient<\/a> requests to amend protected health information (PHI). Generally, a patient has the right to amend PHI or a record about the individual in a designated record set, for as long as the PHI is in a designated record set<\/a>.<\/p>\n […]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Click here to view full original article at www.jdsupra.com<\/a><\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It seems hard to imagine this now, but three decades ago, before HIPAA was signed into law, a patient\u2019s legal right to amend or correct a mistake in his or her records was severely limited. Only patients who were treated at healthcare organizations operated by the federal government, and patients who resided in states that had passed legislation granting patients this specific right, had the legal right to amend their protected health information (PHI) in their medical records. Upon passage of the HIPAA Privacy Rule, ALL patients were given the legal right to amend their PHI.… Read More <\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,18,10],"tags":[17,20,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexcompliance.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexcompliance.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexcompliance.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexcompliance.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexcompliance.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apexcompliance.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexcompliance.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexcompliance.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexcompliance.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexcompliance.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}