The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Bermuda
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Right to access medical records
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Under PIPA, you have the right to access personal information of a medical or psychiatric nature that an organisation holds about you. There are a few exceptional situations in which you can’t access it.
If you make a request for access to your personal information of a medical or psychiatric nature or your personal information kept for the purposes of, or obtained in the course of, carrying out social work relating to you, an organisation may refuse to provide access to personal information if disclosure of your personal information would be likely to prejudice your physical or mental health.
If an organisation refuses your PIPA medical records access request, you can ask the organisation to provide access to your personal information to a health professional who has expertise in relation to the subject matter of the record. The health professional will then determine whether or not disclosure of your personal information to you would be likely to prejudice your physical or mental health.