STHC-L: The Science, Technology and Health Care Archives Forum

Patient and Human Subject Information

• Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 14:52:24 -0400 (EDT)
• To: sthc-l@library.ucla.edu
• From: Nancy McCall <nmccall@mail.jhmi.edu>
• Subject: Patient and Human Subject Information
• Message-ID: Pine.GSO.4.10.10110221442480.12913-100000@welchlink

The Medical Archives at Johns Hopkins is interested in learning more about the
types of records containing patient and human subject information at other
repositories. Our legal counsel, who is helping us develop policies to
comply with the privacy regulations of the Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act (HIPAA), has requested that we make this query in order
to gain a general overview of the kinds of patient and human subject
information being retained at repositories in the United States.

Would you be able to provide a brief description of the types of records in
your repositories that contain patient and human subject information?
Based upon our experience at the Medical Archives, we have found that the
following types of records most frequently contain patient and human subject
information:

	Textual records - minutes,correspondence files, logbooks, case files,
hospital charts, operative notes, nurses' notes, progress notes, data sets,
questionnaires, clinical trials, billing statements, and insurance claims.


	Visual records - medical illustration, still photographs, videos,
films, x-rays, scans, and other radiographic images.

	Oral records - audio recordings of patients and human subjects,
dictation of physicians and other health personnel.

	Specimens - Gross and microscopic samples.


We will greatly appreciaate hearing from you and will summarize the responses
for the list

Please respond to me directly at 

Nancy McCall
Archivist
The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions