Saturday, February 27, 2016
Week 3
Things are going slowly, but the methods in which I'll be conducting data analysis are slowly being outlined. On Monday I attended a meeting in which I was given a task in updating patient information. On Wednesday I worked on updating said information and also began to conduct research at the medical center library concerning federal and state regulations on record retention.
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ReplyDeleteHi Shabab,
ReplyDeleteGreat start and sounds like a very useful idea to the hospitals in the long run. How are the other hospitals in AZ dealing with these records? Does it differ from hospital to hospital? How about other states? What are the state and national regulations in maintaining these records? Did you get to know these information? Just curious...
Hello Mrs. Raj,
DeleteI've actually been doing research on other possible studies that other hospitals have conducted on the same issue, but I haven't found anything so far except a study conducted on individual physician offices. I would assume it does differ from hospital to hospital.
Analysis on federal and state regulations is what I have been doing for the past week and I discovered that the federal government has set different retention periods for several different types of medical documents. There are too many types for me to list here, but basically the government set a requirement for each type of document that was usually around 3-5 years that the document had to be kept before it was destroyed to protect confidentiality.
Each state sets their own specific requirement in regards to record retention. Arizona's requirement is that patient records must be kept for six years after treatment by a healthcare provider.