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Requirements to Access a Patient’s Health Information

While working at Rassy Clinic as an administrative medical assistant, you received a call from a patient’s wife asking for his most recent lab results. The patient is currently in the hospital and is unable to speak on the phone at the moment.

ORDER FOR A CUSTOMIZED ESSAY ON PATIENT’S HEALTH INFORMATION

For your  initial post, answer these questions:

Where would you look to determine if the patient’s wife has approval to access his protected health information?
If the wife did not have approval to access the patient’s health information, what would be the next steps to allow her to gain access to his records?