Some patient advocates say a doctor’s notes offer insights patients might never hear from their physician, putting patient and provider on the same page.
Many patients go home with a summary of their office visit. That recap often includes a list of medications or reminders to schedule a follow-up. The full doctor’s note has many more details —all the stuff the physician types into the computer during and after your medical appointment. Your medical history. The complaint that brought you to the office. Sometimes, physicians write down exactly what patients say.
Liz Salmi, a woman living with brain cancer in Sacramento, Calif., was an experienced patient advocate and But it was a nice way to re-hear what her doctors had told her through the years. Salmi said the records are a time capsule of sorts. As Salmi scanned the pages, she said, she discovered “meaningful nuggets” where her doctors quoted her verbatim.
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA, which has been the law since 1996, allows patients to review and get copies of their medical records.Krumholz, a cardiologist and professor at Yale University, published aThe results varied widely. Some hospitals didn’t meet state deadlines for delivering the records, others charged exorbitant fees for the documents — well above the federal government’s recommendation for electronic records.
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