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Your Privacy Rights
Patients or their parents/legal guardians have certain rights under HIPAA, including the right to:
- Look at or request a copy of your/your child's medical records.
(Authorization to Release/Obtain Patient Information) (80K)
- Request a correction or change to information you believe is inaccurate or incomplete.
(Request to Amend/Correct Records) (48K)
- Obtain details about when Children's Hospital released information as allowed by law without your written permission.
(Request for an Accounting of Disclosures of Medical Information)
(64K)
- Request restrictions on how Children's Hospital may use and share your medical information.
- Request that we communicate with you in a certain way to protect your privacy. For example, if you prefer not to receive telephone calls while at work, you may ask that we not contact you there.
- Change your mind after signing an authorization form and withdraw your permission for Children's Hospital to release your information.
(Revocation (Withdrawal) of Authorization) (80K)
- File a privacy complaint with Children's Hospital.
(Privacy Practices Complaint) (48K)
A detailed explanation of each of these rights is contained in our Notice of Privacy Practices (48K) along with instructions on how you can exercise these rights at Children's Hospital.
In most situations involving patients who are children, the child's parent or legal guardian is the one who may carry out these rights on behalf of their child. In situations where a child may consent to his/her own care without parental consent (i.e., testing and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases), the patient is the one who has these rights.
Related Links
Safeguarding Your Medical Information
Obtaining Medical Records
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