Purging Electronic Medical Records

Disposal of Protected Health Information | HHS.gov

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Does the HIPAA Privacy Rule require covered entities to keep patients’ medical records for any period of time? Connect With OCR Sign Up for OCR Updates To sign up for updates or to access your subscriber preferences, please enter your contact information below. Sign …

Retention and Destruction of Health Information - AHIMA

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Purging is the act of separating active from inactive records in a filing system …

Understanding the HIPAA Medical Records Destruction Rules

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It is also important to note that some states have more stringent medical records destruction rules than HIPAA; and, in some states, any organization that creates, …

EMR Data Purging, Auto and Manual EMR Purge | HDA

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Designed to accept a multitude of if-then scenarios based on record retention policy, HealthData Archiver® is flexible in how it creates, manages and allows for …

Shelf Life: What You Need to Know about Medical …

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Medical Record Destruction It is HIPAA Mandated

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PHI in electronic media may be cleared by overwriting it, purged by degaussing or exposing the media to a magnetic field, or otherwise destroyed by disintegration, pulverization, melting, incinerating, or …

Document Retention 101: When to Purge Files

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For some businesses that are not interested in file purging and would instead prefer to retain all documents indefinitely, scanning your records and using an electronic content management software enables you to …

Moving Mountains — The Proper Purge of Medical Records

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The destruction of electronic-based medical records is also a major issue facing facilities. IT staff must ensure that the records are completely destroyed, with no backups on …

Purging EHR Data | Healthcare IT Today

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For example, many hospitals likely chose to purge paper charts partially based on the cost of storing a large quantity of patient charts that will likely rarely get used. The …

Retention of Paper Medical Records After Converting to …

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has verified that for its purposes, an electronic reproduction is a “legally reproduced form” of a Medicare patient’s record. Here’s what CMS says …