Re: sealing medical records

From: Cara Levinson
Email: CaraBLevinson@aol.com
Date: February 08, 2005

Comments

Under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, all employee medical records must be kept physically separate from their personnel records and be available only to those with a true "need to know". Recently passed HIPAA regulations simply reiterate the need to honor the privacy and confidentiality of such materials. While I typically counsel my client to keep the two types of files in separate file cabinets, with the medical ones under lock and key, I assume this attorney wanted to make it logistically easier to keep each employee's files together and yet separate.