On 9/17/07, Allan, Liz <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> California state law (Title 22) specifies 7 years, and so far as I know
> that has always been the retention period here.
>
> Note, I should have written "pediatrics: keep until the child is the age
> of majority (18 y/o) plus
> one year (i.e., 19 y/o), BUT IN NO CASE FOR LESS THAN 7 years beyond the
> last date of service."


Thanks Liz-

As stated in response to Trudy's post... how would the storage vendor know
when the last date of treatment was, or when pediatric patients met majority
age, unless they inspected EVERY record stored to segregate minorty form
majority age patients, then calculated the dates for age and knew the date
of last service?

And not to throw a real monkey wrench into this, but based on Alabama having
a different statute for determining what to do with pediatric records, what
if the patient wasn't a California resident?  Would the records still fall
undr the jurisdiction of the California laws?  Don't the records (based on
HIPAA) belong (at least in part) to the patient?

Larry



-- 
Larry Medina
Danville, CA
RIM Professional since 1972

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