Contents
A patient's individual medical record identifies the patient and contains information regarding the patient's case history at a particular provider. The health record as well as any electronically stored variant of the traditional paper files contain proper identification of the patient. Further information varies with the individual medical history of the patient.
The contents are written by medical providers, and patients until relatively recently had no say in what was contained in it. Recent advances in health care records privacy and access rules have generally provided for a patient's right to review and have recorded in the medical record objections to the accuracy of certain entries.
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