ISBA CLE

Electronic Health Records: Current Legal and Ethical Issues

Presented by the ISBA Health Care Section

Chicago
Friday, November 21, 2008
ISBA Regional Office
20 S. Clark St.
Suite 900 (map and directions)
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Live or Teleconference

1.0 MCLE credit hour, including 1.0* hour PMCLE credit

Attorneys representing health care clients must keep abreast of current legal and ethical issues relating to the rapidly evolving world of electronic health records. Although the increased access to health information in the electronic health record age is a significant advance, health care providers are faced with certain legal and ethical issues that they must address.

Understanding the effects that regulated quality standards may have on your clients, including their impact on reimbursement, professional liability exposure, and contracting, is essential to anticipating and, therefore, avoiding unintentional consequences of those standards.

Health care attorneys, hospital in-house counsel, and professional liability attorneys of all levels of experience will find this program beneficial.

Program Coordinator/Moderator:
Ann K. Ford, VP General Counsel, Rush North Shore Medical Center, Skokie

Program Speaker:
David R. Donnersberger Jr., MD, JD, FCLM, Site Director, Internal Medicine Clerkship, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Noon – 12:15 p.m. Lunch included for on-site participants

12:15 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. Program
Dr. Donnersberger will provide an overview of legal and ethical issues health care providers face with electronic health records and the laws and regulations, such as HIPAA and federal and state discovery rules that pertain to those issues. As part of the presentation, he will summarize and describe situations where issues such as protecting the privacy and security of health information and complying with litigation discovery requests arise and will give practical suggestions for addressing them.

* Professional Responsibility MCLE credit subject to review