BC Advantage - 2011 Issue 7

Release of Information: Purpose of Request Determines What to Disclose

Health Information Management (HIM) staff increasingly exist in an electronically-driven health record.  As electronic medical record (EMR) and electronic health record (EHR) systems expand, consider it vital to have Release of Information (ROI) staff capable of determining the appropriate type(s) of records and the contents necessary to meet the intent of every request.  Whereas the transition from a paper-based record may have freed up ROI staff from searching through potential mounds of paper, that free time should not result in a reduction of staff, but instead, an expansion of their skill sets.In selecting which medical records...

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