Kathi,
Do you know if this is the same for all states?
Shirley Ford Bowersox
Sbgranger(a)aol.com
Sent from my iPod
On May 18, 2010, at 9:33 PM, Kathi Jones-Hudson <mdcemmy(a)yahoo.com>
wrote:
Medical records are sealed in Maryland (even before HIPPA). General
information, like any census taken during the time someone was a
patient may be available somewhere and you can get some informaton
under some circumstances, you're the patient, family member, a
doctor, insurance company, under court orders, etc. But they are not
considered public records.
However, mental health records are permanently sealed, rather
difficult to get, even patients are not allowed access to those
records.
So the records may be restricted to who was there, like a census,
but won't contain actual medical information.
Kathi Jones-Hudson
MD Tombstone Transcription Project Manager
http://www.usgwtombstones.org/maryland/maryland.html
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