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Originally Posted by BeyondtheRainbow
Wow WC that's awful. I go to a big university too and they have psych records passcoded so that nobody can get into them but psych staff. The hospital used paper records for years after the regular hospital used computers until they could isolate those records. I think maybe my diagnoses show up but no details and definitely no access to the records. My GI will have to ask questions to know anything helpful and that's the way it should be.
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As I understand things here: If one gets their psychiatric care at the university hospital, or a satellite office, or in IOP or PHP, then their records are passcoded. If one has care outside of the system and it comes in onto the record somehow, it is in the regular chart and not protected. Maybe it is this way everywhere?
I know people who work at the university hospital/health center and they will not get involved with the university health care system because they know how the records are "open," despite HIPPA regulations.
Do people realize that HIPPA regulations say we cannot view our own charts when we are meeting with a doctor? My rheumy, who still has partial paper records, has to close the file or has to flip it over, so I cannot see it, especially if she leaves the room momentarily... and it is MY record and my insurance pays for the generation of the record! Hello?
Yet, others can have access without any problem! Makes all kinds of sense!
