Explore legal concepts of medical record management, from privacy to destruction, and adapt to evolving healthcare challenges.
Health care has changed and so has health record management. With considerations for the change from hard copy to electronic record, patient medical record privacy, security and management requirements and storage and destruction of records, identifying and protecting your organization from legal challenges is a priority.
This presentation is intended to be a flyover discussion of the general legal concepts applicable to medical records management, storage, and destruction. Included in the overview of the record management discussion is consideration of what constitutes a medical record, the merger and management of hard copy and electronic records, privacy considerations, storage and management of the medical record, management of the record in special circumstances, applicable time limits, and oversight of record destruction. As the medical record world changes, legal obligations change, privacy concerns evolve, regulatory changes continue to occur and the ability to manage records while being sensitive to the new environment grows in importance. This overview is intended to provide a general familiarization with those growing challenges and the requirements for a well-run practice from the solo practitioner to the large institution and allow those responsible to identify areas where greater training and practice is needed.
Learning Objectives
- You will be able to define what a medical record is.
- You will be able to review the basics of record retention.
- You will be able to discuss how to maintain record privacy and compliance.
- You will be able to explain the change of status considerations for the practice.
Agenda
Speakers
Scott R. Cook,
Tyson & Mendes LLP- Partner at Tyson & Mendes LLP’s Las Vegas office
- Experience includes all aspects of general liability, complex and mass tort litigation, insurance, health care, regulatory law, and business litigation
- Experience extends to catastrophic injury/damage, complex/mass litigation in tort, multistate litigation, environmental litigation, explosion/fire litigation, health care law, employer/employment law, and insurance law
- Has managed litigation for a multi-state insurance carrier and was a managing partner for a national law firm
- Received awards from the Colorado Defense Lawyer’s Association, the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce, the Self-Insurance Institute of America, the American Legal Administrators, and received the Legal Excellence Award from Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company
- Achieved the highest rating in the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, a Rocky Mountain Region Super Lawyer by Vegas Inc., a Top Lawyer by Desert Companion Top Lawyer – Complex Litigation, one of America’s Top 100 Civil Defense Litigators in Nevada, a Top Attorney of the Mountain States, and was recognized as a Lifetime Achievement Member by America’s Top 100 Attorneys
- J.D. degree, University of Nebraska College of Law; B.A. degree, in Political Science/International Relations, University of Nebraska
