Blocked from accessing my tween's medical records on line.
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Anonymous
| Did you know once children reach 13, you can't access their medical records online? Privacy laws now require them to register and access their own accounts. It's crazy! I need to request more medication and can't contact their doctor online anymore. They are still minors and can't order medication. I'm livid. Has anyone experienced this? |
Anonymous
| My friend in California just found this out the hard way too. |
Anonymous
| PP here. I should add: I believe your kid can give permission for you to access it. |
Anonymous
| Thank you Kaiser Permanente!!! |
Anonymous
Why in the hell should I have to ask my 13 year old permission to talk to the pediatrician online to refill a critical prescription? It's maddening. |
Anonymous
| I think this should start at 18. I couldn't do any medical things in college because my parents would snoop through my medical records. I even had to go to planned parenthood for birth control. Now that kids are on their plans until 26 this is exacerbated. |
Anonymous
| OP you can just login under their account and do it. I login under my DH's Kaiser account and get his prescriptions and make appointments all the time. |
Anonymous
| We've gone mad with these asinine privacy laws. This is blatant abuse of the system and only hurts families in the end. These laws weren't meant to be used like this. |
Anonymous
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^^ Yes, that is exactly what you have to do which defeats the whole damn cyber security purpose. This is the message I got when I tried to update the permission:
Larla can't be added to your family list. We're sorry, but state privacy laws give teens additional privacy once they reach 12, 13, or 14, so parents no longer view certain types of health records online WTH?!? |
Anonymous
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Guys, it's to help kids actually access health care:
Concerns about privacy can prevent adolescents from seeking care.4 In two large nationally representative surveys, approximately a quarter of middle and high school students reported having forgone health care they needed.5 In one of these, a third of students who did not seek care reported that one of their reasons was "not wanting to tell their parents."6 The impact of privacy concerns when adolescents require specific services to address sensitive health issues is likely much higher. For example, half of single, sexually active females younger than 18 years surveyed in family planning clinics in Wisconsin reported that they would stop using the clinics if parental notification for prescription contraceptives were mandatory; another one in 10 reported that they would delay or discontinue use of specific services, such as services for STDs.7 Furthermore, only 1% of adolescent girls who indicated they would stop using family planning services reported that they would also stop having intercourse; the vast majority reported that they would continue to have sex, but use less effective contraceptive methods or none at a11.8 https://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/3608004.html |
Anonymous
| I'm sorry but there is an unintended consequence to extending privacy laws to 12, 13 and 14 year olds. You think???? |
Anonymous
Anonymous
| Can you use his login and password? |
Anonymous
| That's fine to give your child access to their medical records. But, we are talking about children who cannot always make informed decisions without an adult and to deny permission may not be in their best interest. |
Anonymous
Yes, but essentially I will have to register an account for them because they won't know how to do it without an adult or parent showing them. So, there goes the privacy they are trying to protect. It will essentially be me the parent logging in as the child. |