Patient Access to Health Records

Under most privacy legislation, including Alberta’s Health Information Act, a patient has the right to access their own records about themselves. The information that a patient provides to the healthcare provider belongs to the patient. The healthcare provider is responsible to maintain the information on paper or in a computer and ‘owns’ the documents.

This video is ideal for clinic managers, practice managers and healthcare providers in primary care practices; physicians, chiropractors, opticians, dentists, physiotherapists, and many others.