Patient Rights & Responsibilities
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HIPAA Guidelines
HIPAA gives patients more control over, and knowledge about, who is using their medical information and for what purpose.
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Patient Information Confidentiality Policy
Privacy is a patient's right to have all records and information pertaining to his/her health care treated as confidential.
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Patient Rights
Dana-Farber fully endorses a patient bill of rights that was formalized by both the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
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Patient Relations
The patient relations representative is a main resource for people who have concerns about their treatment at Dana-Farber and for departments working to improve patient satisfaction with their services.
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Advance Directives
Health care proxy and living will forms allow patients to communicate their decisions in case they become unable to communicate them on their own.
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Tips for Talking with Your Doctor
An important part of good health care is a good relationship between a patient and his or her doctor. They must be able to communicate well with each other so the patient's needs are met.
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Medical Records
Who keeps them? Who has access to them? How can a patient get copies of them?
