As a patient, you have a right to access to the information in your medical record. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), protects health information created or maintained by health care providers throughout the United States. Prior to receiving care in the hospital, each patient shall receive and be asked to acknowledge that they have received a Notice of Privacy Practices that explains their rights under HIPAA and the hospital’s use of their health information for treatment, payment, and health care operations without further authorization.
As part of the new regulations, each patient has the right, with some restrictions, to:
- review his or her own medical record;
- request an amendment or correction to the medical record;
- add supplemental information to the record;
- restrict use and disclosure of your medical information;
- authorize formal consent before health information is released other than for treatment, payment, or as part of health care operations; and
- know who requested and received medical information for other than treatment, payment, or health care operations.
In protecting your information, health care providers, such as Hackensack Meridian Health and their workforce, are prohibited, with some exceptions, from releasing your health information to anyone not involved in your health care or connected hospital operations, including family members, unless you have provided written consent. The Authorization for Release of Information form allows HMH to release your information to a particular agency or individual that you designate. To request access to or copies of your medical records or our authorization to release information form, please call one of the following telephone numbers:
- Bayshore Medical Center: 732-739-5933 or 732-739-5985
- Carrier Clinic: 908-281-1479
- Hackensack University Medical Center: Joseph M. Sanzari Children’s Hospital: 551-996-2075
- Jersey Shore University Medical Center / K. Hovnanian Children’s Hospital: 732-776-4241
- Mountainside Medical Center: 973-429-6042
- Ocean University Medical Center: 732-840-3331
- Palisades Medical Center: 201-854-5081 or 201-854-5083
- Pascack Valley Medical Center: 201-781-1116
- Raritan Bay Medical Center: 732-324-5045
- Old Bridge Medical Center: 732-324-5045
- Riverview Medical Center: 732-530-2333
- Southern Ocean Medical Center: 609-597-6011 x2121
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