Confidentiality of health records: a symposium on current issues, opportunities, and unfinished business.
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The health care record is a highly prized document. It is important to the consumer, vital to the provider, and demanded by a great variety of third parties. In the face of these demands--many sanctioned by statute and regulations--providers are offered guidelines for evaluating their policies and procedures against the background of consumer concerns and their own ethical and professional standards.
EPSDT, or any similar national health program, will spawn multiple records on millions of children and adults. Multiple providers will need to share more data to provide quality care. Maintaining privacy of child/parent records, avoiding the dangers of labeling, controlling the life of records and insuring their appropriate demise exacerbate record maintenance problems. Principles of record-keeping confidentiality are proposed.