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Browser tool · Employee medical records

Write down what nobody has written down.

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Why no score: putting a number on legal risk would be a legal conclusion dressed as arithmetic, and we do not give legal conclusions. Mapping where documents sit is factual and verifiable.

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Where documents arrive

A shared HR inbox

Do medical documents arrive here?

A manager's personal inbox

Do medical documents arrive here?

A ticketing or service desk tool

Do medical documents arrive here?

02

Where they end up

A shared drive or cloud folder

Do medical documents arrive here?

The HRIS or personnel file itself

Do medical documents arrive here?

Printed and filed on paper

Do medical documents arrive here?

03

Who can reach them

The shared inbox

Who can open this store today?

The shared drive

Who can open this store today?

The HRIS record

Who can open this store today?

04

What is written down

Is there a record of who opened a medical document, by name?
Can an employee ask to see who has read their file, and get an answer?
Is the interactive process for an accommodation written down as it happens?

References

  1. [1] Separate forms and separate files for medical information, electronic records included, ADA Title I and 29 C.F.R. 1630.14(b)(1). EEOC, informal discussion letter on confidentiality of medical records.
  2. [3] The legal characterization of an undocumented interactive process is left for counsel. What this page states is narrower: the employer is the party that has to evidence the process it ran.