Health Record is a reference for the people responsible for releasing health information correctly: compliance officers, privacy officers, HIM directors, and the front-office staff who actually field the requests.
Most right-of-access enforcement does not begin with a breach. It begins with an ordinary request that was answered too slowly, priced too high, routed to the wrong person, or refused on grounds that do not hold up. So we deliberately write from the requester's point of view — because that is the view a regulator will take.
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