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Access to Medical Records

CASE ANALYSIS: DEMAND FOR ACCESS TO MEDICAL RECORDS

This case involves a situation in which a minor teenaged girl has been determined by physician examination at a hospital to be pregnant. The girl disclosed to the physician that the pregnancy resulted from sexual molestation by her step-father, and the girl expressed a desire to withhold the information from her mother. Her mother (who also is a mid-level administrator at the hospital), however, demands access to the girlÆs original medical records and states further that her religious convictions require that she alter the girlÆs medical records to eliminate references about the step-father. The case requires answers to the following three questions:

What is the appropriate response to the motherÆs request for access to the girlÆs original medical records with an expressed intention to alter the records?

How should the hospital resolve the problem of the motherÆs request for access to the girlÆs original medical records?

What action should the hospital implement to preclude a recurrence of similar problems?

Three sources were provided to be used as references in analyzing this case. Unfortunately, the three sources are out of date, as new medical privacy regulations have been implemented since the three sources were published.

While the case materials do not state when the incident supposedly occurred (the materials state only that the incident occurred in California), one logically assumes that the case refers to the current social and legal environment in the United States. Thus, one, in analyzing this case, must recognize the HIPPA privacy regulations implemented by the Bush Administration nationally in 2003, as well as the laws in effect in the State of California in 2003. With these caveats in mind, the responses to the three questions required to be answered by the case are as follows:

What is the appropriate response to the motherÆs request fo...

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