MediConnect Global today joins thousands of people from many different groups and organizations volunteering their time and services in support of the people and clean up of the Gulf hurricane disaster areas by donating digitized back up copies of archived medical records to those who may have lost their paper medical records due to the storms.

MediConnect has retrieved or received requests to retrieve thousands of medical records from organizations in the areas most affected by Hurricane Ike, Hurricane Gustav, and Tropical Storm Fay. MediConnect will donate digitized copies of medical records to individuals, physicians, hospitals, law firms, insurance carriers or independent agents located in the designated disaster areas who submit a request accompanied by a HIPAA-compliant patient authorization. Those who need their records can go to www.mediconnect.net to begin the process of getting any records that may be in MediConnect’s archive.

MediConnect’s donations join many relief efforts from people, churches, and other organizations providing help in the devastated areas.

MediConnect has an extensive archive of digitized medical records—records that were previously retrieved. If people or healthcare organizations within the disaster areas need to replace any medical records, MediConnect will donate free of charge any that it contains in its archives.

Simply go to the MedConnect Web site and click on the Hurricane Ike link. Fill out and submit a simple form and a MediConnect representative will contact you to coordinate any archived records the company may have.