US Army to address parents’ blocked access to teen medical records
The US Army is moving to address a policy that has blocked military parents from accessing the medical records of their teenage children, ages 13 to 18. The barrier has created friction for families navigating healthcare within the military system.
Why this matters: Most parents expect to be able to see their kid's medical records. Military families apparently could not, at least not easily. That gap matters because teenage healthcare decisions do not happen in a vacuum. Parents are often responsible for follow-up care, medications, and long-term treatment. The fix here is overdue. But it also puts a real tension on the table: teens have genuine privacy interests in their own health information, and any new policy needs to be honest about where parental access ends and a young person's privacy begins.
Who should care: Healthcare professionals · Privacy officers · Compliance
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