Prominent Health Care Corporation Nemours Blocks Parental Access to Children’s Medical Information - Children can Elect to let their Parents Access Records
Society is creeping further into revoking parental rights; first, we can start with several news anchors who have forgotten that children belong to their parents - not the community. Then, we can speak to the politicians who believe the latter. Now, we need to address the medical corporations who are blocking parental access to their child's medical information, such as prescriptions and medicines, by default.
Nemours, which partakes in the healthcare of approximately four hundred thousand children annually across one hundred locations in Delaware, Florida, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, is actively blocking parental access to adolescent medical information such as prescriptions and medicines.
Children are not legally adults until they are eighteen years old; legally, they cannot vote, they cannot live on their own, they cannot have credit, they cannot pay bills, hold a job, open a bank account, or anything that doesn't require parental consent - which encompasses a vast majority of actions taken by people today. So why, then, would a medical corporation seek to overstep and revoke access to their child's information?
We can see the basis for the action in a Hippa Privacy Rule published in 2002; at the age of twelve, children are offered the 'chance' to take ownership and engage in their medical records without their parents having access to them. Under the Hippa privacy rule;
"Yes, the Privacy Rule generally allows a parent to have access to the medical records about his or her child, as his or her minor child's personal representative when such access is not inconsistent with State or other law.
There are three situations when the parent would not be the minor's personal representative under the Privacy Rule. These exceptions are:
When the minor is the one who consents to care and the consent of the parent is not required under State or other applicable law;
When the minor obtains care at the direction of a court or a person appointed by the court; and
When, and to the extent that, the parent agrees that the minor and the health care provider may have a confidential relationship."
Now, companies like Nemours are digitizing those rules;
"Parents and legal guardians can have access to their child's medical record when the child is under 18. When the child is between the ages of 12 and 17, certain aspects of the medical record are no longer viewable. This is because federal and state law require us to protect certain aspects of an adolescent's medical record."
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