University Dally Kansan
Wednesday, October 5,1977
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Medical file access limited
Bv KARYN GIBSON
Staff Writer
Patients of Watkins Memorial Hospital have only limited access to their own medical records there, according to Martin Wollmann, director of health services.
Legally, he said, doctors at the hospital are not bound to show a patient his records but must provide all information contained within those records.
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As stated in a confidentiality guideline, all records are the property of the hospital and may never be taken from the hospital. He said the stipulation included removal by students or patients on whom the records were kept.
"A patient routinely does not have access to the records," Wolmann said. The medical notes in the records are the doctor's working notes. A patient is entitled to all the information about his health record but not to the records themselves."
**HE SAID** hospital policies stated that release of information to other persons also
A list outlining the procedure for the release of records to attorneys, insurance companies or doctors begins with an item that has been recorded. The information has received the information.
"No one may have access to a student's records unless it is specifically authorized in writing."
The nine-point checklist must be initialed
by an appropriate hospital employee who has completed one of the steps for the release of a patient.
To obtain information from his own records, a patient must wait in line in the hospital waiting room to see a doctor who will give the information, Wollmann said.
He said there was no provision to allow patients to see a doctor without waiting in line, even if the patient merely wanted intervention that already had been entered in a file.
BECAUSE ONLY a doctor may show a patient his file, and because the doctors always were busy with other patients, it would not be fair, Wolmann said, for a “curious” patient to take up a doctor's time looking into a file.
"One patient cannot put his time ahead of others, because he may take just as much time as a sick patient and may prevent a patient to be ill," the sick patients as be could. "Wollmann said."
Although doctors are not required to give the patient his records, information in a file may come in the form of an oral summary from the doctor. Wollmann said this was the most common method of telling the patient what was in his medical records.
He said the doctors were allowed to use their dissection on which method they used.
Some doctors may choose to show the notes to a patient as a matter of convenience, he said. Because of the technical language sometimes used, however, the technology is not available to most users.
EVEN IF A patient were to insist on seeing his file, the doctor still was not legally obligated to show it, Wollmann said. He said the possibility existed that the file might contain notes that a doctor would not want the patient to see.
"If push comes to show, the patient must have a right to the doctor's notes." he said.
A patient may request that a copy of his records be sent to another doctor, who then could review the notes and tell or show the patient the contents.
He said that in his experience, doctors in private practice varied greatly in their attitudes about letting anyone, including patients, view their private files.
A doctor might consider that his files were open to all who wanted to see them, Wollmann said, but some doctors never would have had information in files even to another doctor.
It is up to the individual doctor to decide what to expose his files on a patient to that patient's WEB.
He said a court could subpoena medical records and the hospital would be required to release them. But he said this was usually done in the case of accidents that the patient was involved in, and the patient usually was informed of the court order.
Senate funding requested
By LEON UNRUH Staff Writer
Preparations for the fall supplementary budget hearings begin last night for the Senate Student Services Committee when it will closely look at 10 funding applications.
The Student Senate has accepted applications for more than $7,859 from student groups. Available funds total about $36,332.
Chris Caldwell, senate treasurer, said at
least one more group would turn in a late request.
Alpha Phi Omega dance society led the
applicants, requesting $2,017. Hilltop
School of Music in Chicago.
MOST OF THAT money, Tarabouls said, was to replace formica and tile in the kitchen of the Wesleyan building, which Hilton moved into this year. Last semester's Senate allocation of $4,000 for rent was returned after the purchase of the building.
Other groups asking for money were:
Douglas County Legal Aid, $54; Women's
Coelection, $78; Kentucky Kansas En-
sley Services, $75; Services, $75;
Headquarters, $1,878; Consumer Affairs
Taraboubles said he had had qualms about asking the supplemental budget committee for the Kansas Environmental Service's request. He questioned the number of students who used KES's weather forecasting service.
Association, $88; and Commission on the Status of Women, $300.
LAST SPRING the committee voted not to recommend KES's request of more than $10,000, suggesting instead no funding. The committee wrote an佐理 that recommendation, allocating $770.
Indian center leader named
Taraboules said that KES had not spent any of those funds yet and that he was not going to spend them.
Rose Villa, Browning, Mont., junior,
started her new job this week as director of
the Lawrence Institute Center (LIC) after her
work in the position by the LIC
Government Board.
"I wanted to do some type of community involvement in Lawrence and started working with the center when I found out how much it developed and in need of help." Villa said.
"They really haven't presented any more evidence that they are a viable group," he88
Villa, a blackfoot tribe member, is working toward a University of Kansas degree in psychology with a minor in Indian History, and been involved with the center since January.
The governing board also appointed the previous director, Dianne Leanos, to the position of counselor. She will work with the staff in the office and assist with the center's daily activities.
The center, Villa said, is a social service organization that acts as a liaison between
The Senate Finance and Auditing Committee must decide whether it will accept the late request of the Commission on the Status of Women. The group turned in its $300 request to the Senate office on Monday, three days after the deadline.
KU HANG GLIDING
MEETING
Wed. 7:30 p.m.
2002
Learned Hall
Everyone Welcome
The supplemental hearings began Oct. 18. The services committee's two representatives are Tarabolus and Betsy McCarley, the managers of the budget and policy review subcommittee.
the lawrence community and Haskell Indi-
nian Junior College. Villa attended Haskell
College in Manhattan.
The LIC functions mainly as a referral office with more than 25 different services. It also is available for emergency services, Villa said.
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