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How long do Louisiana hospitals keep medical records on file?
Posted on 9/1/19 at 1:56 pm
Posted on 9/1/19 at 1:56 pm
Are the laws different for private and public hospitals?
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Posted on 9/1/19 at 2:01 pm to percy
Usually 7 years...
Posted on 9/1/19 at 2:03 pm to percy
Those STD records aren't going away, chach.
Posted on 9/1/19 at 2:03 pm to percy
Only required to keep 7 years.
I've gotten some records dating back to the 80s.
It just depends on their retention policies.
I've gotten some records dating back to the 80s.
It just depends on their retention policies.
This post was edited on 9/1/19 at 2:10 pm
Posted on 9/1/19 at 2:04 pm to percy
Birth records for 21 yrs, all other is 7
Posted on 9/1/19 at 2:08 pm to percy
350 months
Posted on 9/1/19 at 2:19 pm to percy
quote:
Are the laws different for private and public hospitals?
No, but with EMRs this has pretty much gone to an unlimited time period. Back in the paper days it was 7 years for the majority of records, but even then hospitals rarely purged and would just store older records off-site.
Posted on 9/1/19 at 2:40 pm to Epic Cajun
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Are the laws different for private and public hospitals?
No, but with EMRs this has pretty much gone to an unlimited time period. Back in the paper days it was 7 years for the majority of records, but even then hospitals rarely purged and would just store older records off-site.
The hospital that I worked part time at during grad school scanned all the records into the cloud.
So your std test is never going to go away.
Posted on 9/1/19 at 3:38 pm to percy
And mammograms are another individual record that are kept much longer as a standard. A woman's 1st mammogram is kept as the "baseline record" against which ALL future mammos are compared for changes that could lead to breast cancer.
Sooo, if a woman has a family history of breast troubles and gets her 1st mammogram at say 25 years old due to some benign cyst or something she self exam discovers, it could remain her baseline exam for up to like 75 more years.
Sooo, if a woman has a family history of breast troubles and gets her 1st mammogram at say 25 years old due to some benign cyst or something she self exam discovers, it could remain her baseline exam for up to like 75 more years.
Posted on 9/1/19 at 5:39 pm to percy
They can get stuff from storage for as far back as you ask. The issue is whether or not the storage company can find the original files from the 60’s, 70’s 90’s and early 2000’s before they started using electronic charts.
I used to copy medical records back in the day. I had to find stuff on microfilm and microfiche film slides.
The storage facilities are usually contracted out to places like Iron Mountain and such. I would have to ask for stuff multiple times before it was found.
I used to copy medical records back in the day. I had to find stuff on microfilm and microfiche film slides.
The storage facilities are usually contracted out to places like Iron Mountain and such. I would have to ask for stuff multiple times before it was found.
This post was edited on 9/1/19 at 5:42 pm
Posted on 9/1/19 at 6:39 pm to percy
Depends what it is... some indefinitely (sterilizer records, device implant logs), some 10 years, some 7. Mostly goverened by Federal law.
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