Many doctors do give you your results, if you ask for it, but some want you to come in to discuss and then you leave and notice something you want to ask, AFTER, then you either won't know of will have to go back to the doctor again.
If you can get it from the lab, you can look at it and you still have the option to go and discuss it with the doctor, but now you can be more prepared about the questions.
My understand it that even before this, in a number of states you could get the results from the lab directly, or even look at it on the web, but in many states labs were prohibited from giving you your results directly.
Not really..... All we need is a bunch of folks getting a bunch of numbers that maya or may not have meaning to them. Then these brilliant self diagnoses will go to the web and find out ‘what they have’. Will they be right??? Not usually since they won’t know their baselines from before and they won’t really have any more useful information than they had when they went into the docs office and said I don’t feel good.
Good docs have ALWAYS shared results with their patients. .... AND explained what the results meant.
We go to a private lab...in depth analysis for the tests you have purchased. They mail you the kit, you easily provide the blood samples with the instruments provided, and you mail it back. Get the same results, or better, for less than ten cents on the dollar...from my experience.
I instruct my doctor to send me the results and put them in my file. I do know how to read.
“The rule would take effect 60 days after its official publication in the Federal Register, which is set for February 6. “
Here is the ruling in pdf:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2014-02280.pdf
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I’ve got my labs and every thing else for the last 30 years. I have them charted in Excel plus all the other vitals. I usually take it with me when I go to the doc.
Never had a minute’s trouble getting my medical information and don’t need any hippa or other government help for any of that.
Please read up on Theranos http://www.theranos.com/ whose aim is to put a on-drop blood testing service into each Walgreens drug stores nationally which will be directly accessible by the patient.
It will be transformational.
Lurking’
Let’s see. My gliknoid complex beta is 45.3. I better google that.
Bttt
Vets on myhealthevet have been able to view their entire record including labs for awhile now. Can be very useful, most of the time docs will notify you if their is a problem.
The Russians & the democrat party members already have your medical history so you should to.
I have been accessing my lab results online for a few years now. As usual, the feds are a day late and a dollar short.
I have access now, and if I get an xray I get a copy of it through the Film Library (name varies by centre but anyone can get imagery from MRI or CAT scan.
I get all my lab results and I can take the time to plot trends which my MD does not have.
We need a new law? Better read the fine print.
Good ruling - I usually go back to the lab and ask for a copy of the report - they always comply - I let the doc do the analysis, but I like to check for any trends or issues which aren’t clear so I can ask about them if necessary.....
“This is the first good thing about HIPAA!”
First good thing? What’s wrong with HIPAA, exactly?
If you like your lab test report, you can keep your lab test report.
The PA said, no, we can't give you a copy of your EKG, because it would violate privacy rules.
What do you mean 'privacy rules'? It's my own damn EKG. Whose privacy am I violating?
She actually did sneak a copy into my paperwork, probably at great risk to her license.