AUDIO CONFERENCE ON CD OR AUDIO ON-DEMAND
Sponsored by The Legal Health Record Companion: A Case Study Approach
presented on August 5, 2008
As hospitals move toward an electronic health record (EHR), responding to litigation requests and e-discovery is more complex than ever. Given the strict timeframe in which parties must respond to litigation requests, it is imperative that they devise an action plan that addresses timely responses, whether the type of record is electronic, hybrid, or paper.
During this 90-minute audio conference, our expert speakers define the legal health record and provide strategies for responding to e-discovery. You will learn how to compile fragmented data in an electronic format and produce a defendable record that reduces liability and risk You will also learn how two hospitals with hybrid records defined their legal health record and respond to requests for information in a timely manner.
TAKE A LOOK AT THE AGENDA
- Defining the legal health record
- Business records and evidence
- Legal health record stakeholders
- Record custodians
- Processes related to the legal health record
- Legal requests (i.e., subpoenas and discovery)
- Federal and Uniform (State Court) rules for e-discovery
- Importance of cataloging legal health record components
- Inventory of
- Electronic health record systems
- System attributes
- Meta-data, data, and documents
- Snapshots, output, and versioning
- Strategies for litigation response
- Drafting a litigation response plan
- Identifying key stakeholder
- Legal holds
- Case study: The Charlotte Hungerford Hospital
- Developing a project plan for defining the legal health record
- Strategies to approach administration regarding importance of the legal health record
- Plans to implement central data repository
- Case study: Stony Brook University Hospital
- Developing a project plan for defining the legal health record
- Strategies to approach administration regarding importance of the legal health record
- Plans to implement central data repository
- Question-and-answer session
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Generate ideas for defining your own legal health record for disclosure
- Structure a legal health record definition and planning project
- Plan for litigation response
- Describe how other hospitals execute legal health record projects
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Kelly McLendon, RHIA, is the president of Health Information Xperts, LLC in Titusville, FL and has 30 years experience in the HIM industry. McLendon contributed to the migration of HIM into the electronic environment and has previous presentation experience on EHR and electronic HIM systems. He co-authored and serves as Faculty for AHIMA’s eHIM Turning Theory into Practice Seminar series.
Karen Sunderland, is the HIM director and HIPAA privacy officer at the Charlotte Hungerford Hospital, a 109-bed, general acute care hospital in Torrington, CT. Sunderland been responsible for the management of health informatics in the case management, information services, and health information management departments. Sunderland has over 20 years experience in the healthcare industry and is responsible for the development of HIPAA privacy policies and procedures and staff training on these regulation requirements.
Christine Edwards, RHIA, CHP, is the HIM director at Stony Brook University Hospital, a 540-bed academic medical center in Stony Brook, New York and has more than 25 years in the health information management. She is the president-elect of the Long Island Health Information Management Association.
EARN CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS
This program has prior approval of the American Academy of Professional Coders for 1.5 Continuing Education Units. Granting of this approval in no way constitutes endorsement by the Academy of the program, content or the program sponsor. Credit expires August 5, 2009.
This program has been approved for 2 continuing education units for use in fulfilling the continuing education requirements of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA). Credit expires December 31, 2008.
BONUS MATERIAL INCLUDED IN YOUR MATERIALS PACKET!
In addition to the expertise and advice presented during this audio conference, you'll also receive a slide presentation of the program materials and copies of the following:
- Checklist of an organized methodology for a legal health record definition project
- Document matrix form for listing LHR components
- Agenda for an LHR project kick-off meeting
- Article from HCPro's Medical Records Briefing on defining the legal health record
- Legal Health Record Source System attributes sample
- Sample letter to administration outlining the legal health record core team
- Resources for further study
These materials are provided with PDF links.
WHO SHOULD LISTEN?
HIM directors and managers, healthcare record custodians, risk managers, compliance officers, security and privacy experts, IT managers, CIO, CMO, patient accounts directors, diagnostic imaging directors, clinical informatics, release of information managers
AUDIO ON-DEMAND
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