AUDIOCONFERENCE ON TAPE OR CD
Sponsored by The Legal Health Record Companion: A case study approach
presented on January 11, 2007
Defining the legal health record used to be straightforward: The papers in a chart were the legal business record. Now, patient data resides in hybrid form in multiple computer databases—even in multiple locations.
The lines are blurred between what is and is not a legal health record. In fact, The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) named 2007 the year of the legal health record for this very reason.
Your speakers are the authors of The Legal Health Record Companion: A case study approach, from HCPro, and bring a wealth of experience and knowledge to this audioconference.
At the end of the program, you will be able to:
- define the legal health record at your facility.
- demonstrate how versioning works and how to make sure the most current, up-to-date data is available for providers
- tackle the “test patient” risk and prevent bogus information from finding its way to actual patient records
- manage authentication so it is clear who should be authenticating which documents and when this action should take place
- address the change-management aspect of moving to an EHR using actual strategies used by the speakers’ hospitals
NOTE: This is an intermediate-level program. Participants should work with and have a basic understanding of the legal health record.
The legal ramifications are many and varied—from incorporating paper, electronic, or hybrid records into a legal record—to how to amend, scan, and print records—to developing organizational policies that protect your organization in the event you have to provide records in a legal proceeding.
Whether your hospital struggles with EHR issues or you are in the discovery phase to implement an EHR, this 90-minute audioconference provides the guidance you need to manage the tough issues inherent with a legal health record.
TAKE A LOOK AT OUR AGENDA
- Defining a legal health record
- Special considerations for legal electronic health record management (EHRM)
- amendments
- versioning
- scanning
- use of test patients
- authentication -
- billing/compliance issues
- continued care records (CCRNET)
- accessing records outside the facility
- EHR migration path meeting – closing the gap
- relationship with IS/HIM
- collaboration and team approaches
A question and answer session follows the presentation.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Deborah A. Adair, MPH, MS, RHIA, is the director of health information services/privacy officer at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, where she is responsible for the overall management and organization of patient health information for the 902-bed teaching hospital. She has more than 27 years experience in the health information profession, including evaluation and implementation of computerized information systems and in development, maintenance of, and adherence to hospital privacy policies and procedures, as well as compliance with state and federal laws.
Karen B. Griffin is the manager of health information services at Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston, a 747-bed teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School. She manages functions such as release of information and auditing, and has 25 years experience in the healthcare industry. She has additional expertise in system analysis and training, implementing and managing operational workflow, policy design, and HIPAA concerns—including patient amendments, accounting of disclosures, and privacy rights.
YOUR MATERIALS PACKAGE
A PDF package with a slide presentation of the program materials is provided.
WHO SHOULD LISTEN?
HIM manages and directors, compliance officers, practice managers, risk managers, HIS directors and managers, legal counsel, HIPAA and IS specialists
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