Endorsement

 

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Civil rights activist Dorothy Tillman vindicated
a year after arrest for demanding medical records

e-Patient Dave | July 15, 2009

Important addition 7/16/09  6:40 pm EDT: Be sure to read the HIPAA clarification by commenter “SLC” below, and any subsequent discussion. Dorothy Tillman was requesting her aunt’s records, not her own. This doesn’t change the need (IMO), but it does put a different light on the event. This is a tiny item, which we might [...]

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Dx: Revolting.   Rx: Revolt.

e-Patient Dave | July 1, 2009

Tuesday night, endorsement #906 on HealthDataRights.org came from a Judy Beckman, who says: “I agree all the way I cannot get MY records unless I pay for MY records $1.00 per page WHY WHY these are MINE???????????” Indeed, why? Whose data is it, anyway? This spring I’ve been learning (slowly) about HIPAA – the immense [...]

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