No he is not. Once they have been stripped of identifying information and sold, they are of no value to the hospital. There is no reason to keep them longer, as they take up valuable storage space.
This is very basic stuff.
What I meant was with names still on them.
You then assert that they are not stored with names on them.
Once they have been stripped of identifying information and sold, they are of no value to the hospital.
How do you know? How do you know that the reselling and reshuffling of say OB-GYN data or cancer data from the same old set is not salable? Finding out is very basic stuff, is it not?
If records are not required to be kept that does not imply that they are not still being kept. The old records are microfiche or digital these days, not in large dusty boxes.