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    The student provides a well-reasoned response to three questions regarding health record retention policies: 1) The student supports California SB 1415 requiring patients be notified of record destruction periods. This helps ensure continuity of care and avoids potential safety issues if records are missing. 2) For a patient complaining about destroyed records, the state department would likely say the organization followed guidelines unless the patient was in California with special notification laws. 3) The student argues against destroying records once electronic systems are universal. Records could benefit research and patient care by providing a full medical history over a lifetime. This is especially important for studying rare or undiagnosed conditions.

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    The student provides a well-reasoned response to three questions regarding health record retention policies: 1) The student supports California SB 1415 requiring patients be notified of record destruction periods. This helps ensure continuity of care and avoids potential safety issues if records are missing. 2) For a patient complaining about destroyed records, the state department would likely say the organization followed guidelines unless the patient was in California with special notification laws. 3) The student argues against destroying records once electronic systems are universal. Records could benefit research and patient care by providing a full medical history over a lifetime. This is especially important for studying rare or undiagnosed conditions.

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    The student provides a well-reasoned response to three questions regarding health record retention policies: 1) The student supports California SB 1415 requiring patients be notified of record destruction periods. This helps ensure continuity of care and avoids potential safety issues if records are missing. 2) For a patient complaining about destroyed records, the state department would likely say the organization followed guidelines unless the patient was in California with special notification laws. 3) The student argues against destroying records once electronic systems are universal. Records could benefit research and patient care by providing a full medical history over a lifetime. This is especially important for studying rare or undiagnosed conditions.

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    Andrea Hackathorn

    Intro to HIT

    Module 6, Assignment 4

    October 2, 2017

    Real-World Case 8.2

    1. What is your opinion of California Senate Bill 1415? Do you think patients should be made aware

    of an organization's record retention period, although this has not been industry practice? Why

    or why not?

    I think California Senate Bill 1415 is a good idea and other states should adopt similar legislature.

    If we are shifting as a society to provide better care by focusing on the continuum of care and

    accuracy of records, we must consider retention periods. If we are to encourage patients to be

    informed and active in maintaining their own records for their benefit, they must also be

    informed when their records will be destroyed. When records are destroyed before a patients

    life is over, it could potentially affect their medical record and quality of care later on in life. For

    example, if a child has surgery at a very young age and hardware is put in place, they may not

    remember the procedure. If the record is destroyed after so many years, and the patient goes

    for imaging later in life not remembering the procedure, there could be consequences of that

    hardware affecting the images taken or it could jeopardize the safety of a patient.

    2. A patient requested a copy of their health record and learned that it has been destroyed. The

    patient complains to the state health department because they were not notified that their

    record would be destroyed. What response would you expect from the state health

    department?
    I would expect the state health department to inform that patient that the organization did

    nothing wrong assuming that they followed the appropriate guidelines in destroying the

    records. The exception would be if the patients records was in California because that state has

    a law requiring the patient be notified.

    3. Do you believe healthcare facilities should destroy health records? Justify your choice?

    I think the logistics of keeping paper records created a justification for organizations to destroy

    records after a certain time period. Once EHRs are fully implemented, I feel that there will no

    longer be as great of a need to destroy health records. Information can be stored in a much

    smaller space and will be easier to maintain. There could be many benefits in keeping records

    for the endurance of a patients life, and I feel we should not destroy them. One reason is to

    provide better care for the patient. This process could also be especially beneficial in

    researching certain conditions and diseases. An example that comes to my mind of this is the

    study of skeletal dysplasias. There are many skeletal dysplasias that are considered unclassified.

    If we destroy records of children after a certain time and more is discovered about their disease

    later in life, we could miss very important information that would help us diagnose patients

    sooner in life. This topic is something near to my heart because three of my children have a

    skeletal dysplasia. There were slight changes on their ultrasounds during my pregnancy that

    were dismissed. For a while, their case was condition was considered unclassified. Now, several

    years later, a gene has been discovered and the condition is no longer unclassified. I have

    submitted a fetal MRI and other imaging from various time periods of their life to the

    International Skeletal Dysplasia Registry (ISDR). My hope is that by providing those images to

    researchers, someone else might have an easier (and less expensive) diagnosing process so they

    can move on to treating their illness faster.

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