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Patient Rights Under HIPAA
Tuesday, April 8, 2003; Page HE05
Below are five rights patients will have under the new medical privacy regulations scheduled to take effect April 14:
• To inspect, obtain a copy of and request a correction of errors in their medical records.
• To ask doctors and health plans to disclose who else has seen the records.
• To request certain restrictions on the disclosure of medical data.
• To ask that information be delivered to a location other than the address of record.
• To bar hospitals from releasing information about inpatients to the public, including friends and family members.
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