It is time for your medical practice's annual spring cleaning. Your employer has instructed you that all medical records belonging to patients who haven't been a part of the practice for at least five years need to be destroyed. Many of those patients were charted using paper medical records, before the practice adopted its current EMR system. Under the privacy laws, what can you do?

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It is time for your medical practice's annual spring cleaning. Your employer has instructed you that all medical records belonging to patients who haven't been a part of the practice for at least five years need to be destroyed. Many of those patients were charted using paper medical records, before the practice adopted its current EMR system. Under the privacy laws, what can you do?






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