In Your Opinion...Who owns the Medical Records...take the poll
Actually, Amy, I think that the law makes a distinction between the "data" and the "form" of a medical record.
Not to throw off Jeanne's poll, ...
but I believe that the data belongs to the patient (which is why a patient can make a correction and has to authorize access by anyone else except the entity that collected the data)
while the form (paper or electronic) belongs to the medical entity which is charged with handling it all in a certain way.
I'm not sure a simple poll can capture that complexity....