As of Oct. 1, health care providers in Maryland must maintain patient medical records and laboratory and X-ray reports for at least seven years after the records and reports are created. The new law ...

Recent trends indicate that more physicians are considering retirement or selling their private practice to a health care system or other physician practice. If you are one of these physicians, then ...

How much does your healthcare facility spend on archival document management retention per year? As the healthcare industry continues the transitional period toward electronic health record ...

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However, paper-based records aren’t quite a thing of the past. The most recent published figures show that only 78 percent of ...

This is referred to as a ‘retention period.’ At the state level, the required retention period of medical records can be even longer and/or more varied. “For global entities, they will also need to ...