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Supreme Court of Wyoming determines metadata is considered patient information

In a recent case, a patient sued a hospital after requesting her medical records and it refused to provide her a virtual audit trail from its medical record software system. As a result, the Supreme Court of Wyoming (the “Court”) determined that metadata, such as an audit trail, was considered “health care information” and the plaintiff had a right to the data.

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