SC Law Caps Cost of Patient Health Record Copies

SC Law Caps Cost of Patient Health Record Copies
The bill replaces a 1992 state law that allowed hospitals to charge high fees to produce paper copies of records. Hospitals had been relying on the law, which was written before the use of electronic health records became widespread, to calculate per …
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More Private Health Data
Under health-care reform and various initiatives to expand the use of electronic health records, the goal is to make sharing much easier to improve care and to keep the lid on exploding health-care costs (see “Prescription: Networking”). However, for …
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