In plain English
This tells where a release request stands at the moment. The request concerns sharing a patient’s health information or medical records with another person or organization.
In context
Here, it labels the tracker field that reports the present state of the request to share a patient’s health information or medical records with another person or organization.
- Situation
- Managing records, consent forms, proxies, privacy, and information release
- What it communicates
- labels the tracker field showing the current state of the release request.
Meaning limits
By itself, this term does not say which information is being requested or who the receiving party is.
Examples
“After Maya asked for her medical records to be sent to another clinic, the information release status remained pending.”
“On the tracker, the clerk changed the information release status from pending to sent after mailing the records to the insurer.”