Your Medical Records
Swedish is required by law to maintain the privacy of your health information, to provide you with a notice of its legal duties and privacy practices, and to follow the information practices that are described in this Privacy Notice.
Our Health Information Management Department at the Swedish Cancer Institute can help you obtain your medical records.
You may want to authorize disclosure of your medical records for the purpose of:
- Verbal disclosure only to your family members/caregivers
- Request for continuing care release to a new physician
- For you own records
What Information Can I Request to Be Disclosed?
- History and Physical
- Progress (Chart) Notes
- Radiation Treatment Records
- Operative Report
- Diagnostic Studies (Labs, X-ray, EKG, etc.)
- Other
What Information Is Required to Obtain My Medical Records?
We need to have a written and signed request from you: Authorization of Disclosure - Swedish Cancer Institute
Is There a Cost?
- There is no charge for a verbal only disclosure to family members/caregivers.
- There is no charge for an authorization to disclose for purposes of continuing care.
- For other patient disclosures there is a copying charge per page is $1.02 per page for first 30 pages and $.78 per page for all other pages and 9.5% tax.
How Do I Send the Request Form?
Please submit your form by email or fax:
We do not take requests by phone, but if you need to speak to someone at the PSCI Health Information Management Dept, you can call: 206-386-3706 where you can leave a message and your call will be returned.