Understanding Your Health Record

Each time you visit Danbury Internal Medicine Associates, P.C., a record of your visit is made.  Typically, this record contains your symptoms, examination, and test results, diagnoses, treatment, and a plan for future care or treatment.  This information, often referred to as your health or medical record, serves as a :

• Basis for planning you care and treatment,
• Means of communication among the many health professionals who contribute to your care,
• Legal document describing the care you received,
• Means by which you or a third-party payer can verify that services billed were actually provided,
• Tool in educating health professionals,
• Source of data for medical research,
• Source of information for public health officials charged to improve the health of the state and nation,
• Source of data for our planning and marketing, and
• Tool by which we can assess and continually work to improve the care we render and outcomes we achieve.

Understanding what is in your record and how your health information is used helps you to:  ensure its accuracy; better understand who, what, when, where, and why others may access your health information; and make more informed decisions when authorizing disclosure to others.

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