In plain English
It is a permission document for sharing certain health records. The patient, or someone legally allowed to act for the patient, uses it to state that the healthcare provider may release the listed records to the named person or organization.
In context
Here, it names the permission document the portal asks to be uploaded for release of the specified records to the named person or organization.
- Situation
- Managing records, consent forms, proxies, privacy, and information release
- What it communicates
- names the document the portal asks the user to upload before records are sent.
Meaning limits
The term itself does not establish whether any records will actually be released, only the document used to give that permission.
Examples
“His mother completed an authorization form allowing the clinic to send his vaccination record to the school nurse.”
“To request that the hospital send the test results to her insurer, she uploaded the authorization form in the portal.”