Resources
Field notes on medical-record integrity
Practical, plain-language guidance for attorneys working with EMR audit trails — what to demand, how providers withhold it, and what the law requires.
Audit trail vs. access log: what attorneys must demand in discovery
An access log tells you who looked at the chart. An audit trail tells you what they changed. Confusing the two is how altered records survive discovery.
ReadHow the Cures Act ended 'too burdensome' objections to audit trail production
Providers once argued audit trails were too hard to produce. Between HIPAA's audit-control requirement and the Cures Act's information-blocking rules, that objection no longer holds up.
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