Partner Tim Fisher was published in The Daily Record discussing the need for Maryland to update its medical records law to reflect the digital realities of modern healthcare.
Tim notes that while Maryland’s Confidentiality of Medical Records Act broadly governs access to records relating to a patient’s care, what patients receive upon request is typically limited to the materials maintained in the formal chart. Other categories of information, while often preserved somewhere within a provider’s systems, are not routinely included in those disclosures. This includes digital provider-to-provider communications, as well as clinical decision support and system-generated data.
This dynamic creates a disconnect between how care is actually delivered and what patients can readily access. Tim argues that while Maryland’s framework for medical record access has served an important purpose, it was developed in a different technological era. Updating it to reflect the realities of modern healthcare would not expand the scope of care; rather, it would simply ensure that patients can see it more clearly.
Read the piece here: https://thedailyrecord.com/2026/05/28/maryland-update-medical-records-law-digital-era/
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