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Medical Records Access

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:

Opt-Out Request

Care Everywhere and New Jersey Health Information Network are the health information exchanges that give health care providers outside the HMH network access to your health information that can be used for treatment purposes. This access to your health information gives providers an accurate and more efficient way to meet your health care needs. If you do not want any HMH facility or provider to share your health information outside of the HMH network, please complete this form. If you opt-out, you also have the right to opt back in at any time.

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