NOT ALL RECORDS REQUESTS ARE CREATED EQUAL. BUT THEY ALL DISTRACT FROM PATIENT CARE.

Medical Release of Information (ROI) requests pose a variety of challenges including deciphering between Right to Access requests and Authorizations. IN AN EFFORT TO REDUCE CONFUSION AND STREAMLINE DELIVERY, THE AMERICAN HEALTH INFORMATION MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION (AHIMA) ISSUED A TEMPLATE PATIENT REQUEST FOR HEALTH INFORMATION FORM. This model form is designed to be a base template to be edited and adjusted by medical practices to suit their use cases rather than a catch-all for records requests. Download our white paper to understand when and how the AHIMA guidance on forms should be used and when practice administrators need to edit and modify the template to address the different request types