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PPV: Always treat EHRs as business records
EHR Connection, July 16, 2007
Rapidly growing technology and the shift from paper records to EHRs raises the stakes of properly managing electronic information. Your organization must consider EHRs as business records because they not only reflect its business objectives--correctly recording information and ensuring proper patient diagnoses--but they are also of legal value because they track and evaluate a patient's care.
If your organization is unable to release patient information for evidentiary disclosure or discovery (i.e., a request for medical record information), it could be subject to legal ramifications, such as liability to pay damages to injured patients.
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