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HRS §327E-8

Your rights to see medical records when making health care decisions

If you are authorized to make health care decisions for someone, you have the same rights as that person to ask for, get, look at, copy, and agree to share their medical and health information, unless the advance directive says otherwise.

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The statute, as written — Health-care information [§327E-8] Health-care information

Unless otherwise specified in an advance health-care directive, a person then authorized to make health-care decisions for a patient has the same rights as the patient to request, receive, examine, copy, and consent to the disclosure of medical or any other health-care information.
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗as published Jan 6, 2026our copy taken Aug 20, 2026

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