Learn More About Medical Records and Patients’Rights

Medical records are the footprints we make through the medical system. From the moment we are born, to the day we die, our medical records are a chronology of everything that has affected our health or has created a medical problem.

Until the past few years, those records were kept entirely on paper, filed in folders in various doctors’ offices and hospitals. Rarely were they called into question, and often they were ignored when we began to show new symptoms or needed to see a specialist for any new medical problems that cropped up.

Today, more and more of those records are being recorded and stored electronically.  Read More …..

Taken from ASK.com