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PPV: Clear up confusion over paper record retention

EHR Connection, June 25, 2007

As more organizations choose to store patient charts electronically, the question arises of what to do with all of those old paper records.

The answer depends on your state's statutes, says William Roach Jr., Esq., partner at McDermott Will & Emery in Chicago. After you scan or enter records into an EHR, "unless there's a very specific statute involving paper records, which is increasingly not the case," your organization can essentially destroy those paper records at its convenience, says Roach. You're not actually destroying the record, he says. Instead, you're destroying the record's initial medium.

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