a processor, wherein the processor processes a request to at least one of access, obtain, change, alter, and modify, information contained in a patient's healthcare record or a patient's healthcare file of a patient, wherein the processor determines whether an individual or entity is authorized to at least one of access, obtain, change, alter, and modify, the information contained in a patient's healthcare record or a patient's healthcare file, and further wherein the processor generates a notification report containing at least one of information regarding the individual or entity making the request, identification information regarding the individual or entity, and a time and date of the request, and further wherein the notification_report contains an actual change, alteration, or modification, sought to be made or made to the information contained in a patient's healthcare record or a patient's healthcare file; and

a transmitter, wherein the transmitter transmits the notification report to a patient communication device of the patient via, on, or over, a communication network, and further wherein the notification report is transmitted to the patient communication device at least one of during, concurrently with, at a same time as, and prior to a completion of, at least one of an accessing, an obtaining, a changing, an altering, and a modifying, of the information contained in a patient's healthcare record or a patient's healthcare file by the individual or entity, or at least one of during, concurrently with, at a same time as, and prior to a completion of, a processing of the request.