SRC Law Firm represented a client operating as a healthcare provider in proceedings before the Patient Ombudsman.
The decision concerned the responsibility for the continued storage of patients’ medical records in a situation where a healthcare provider terminates the operations of one of its healthcare facilities, in which services will be continued for existing patients by another healthcare provider.
In this case, the Patient Ombudsman confirmed that the regulations stipulate that if the tasks of an entity removed from the register of healthcare entities are taken over by another entity, that entity also takes over the patient records.
The Patient Ombudsman also confirmed that the above regulation applies only to the medical records of an entity that has ceased its medical activities. However, this does not apply to situations where a healthcare entity has ceased to provide services in only one of its existing locations and is still entered in the register of entities providing medical services.
