What are a patients rights regarding PHI?
Patients have six fundamental rights: 1. The right to receive a notice about your privacy policies. This notice will be similar to the form credit card companies or banks currently send to customers, indicating specifically how they use their personal information. The notice must include information about patients’ rights under HIPAA, including the right to access the information you maintain about them and the right to complain if they feel their rights have been violated. Although you do not have to obtain a patient’s consent to use his or her PHI for treatment, you must at least make a good faith effort to acquire the patient’s acknowledgement that he or she received notice of your privacy policies. A copy of the acknowledgment should be kept in the patient’s file. 2. The right to access the medical information you maintain about him or her. On request, you may provide a summary of the patient records or the records themselves, but you must do so within a specified time period. If y
