Electronic Medical Records & The ARRA Stimulus: Law, Rules, Regulations & Opportunities

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Agenda


Registration starts at 7:30 am; meeting scheduled from 8:30-5:00

ARRA Overview

New HIPAA rules for BAs, vendors, new disclosures and reporting, certified EHR reimbursements for hospitals, physician offices and more more.

Scenario discussions

Key stakeholders in legal health records

What your legal counsel should bring to the table

Overview of HIPAA, CMS regulations and Florida Statues regarding medical records

Consents, authorizations, super confidential information

Fees and charges

Special considerations for super confidential, mental health, substance abuse,
   pediatrics

Legal process overview and rules of evidence for both Florida and Federal law

Legal health record planning, including eDiscovery

Liabilities and Consequences

EHR & EMR, a wealth of confusion

CCHIT

HL-7 EHR standards and legal health record functional profile

Ambulatory EHR (EMR) templates and functionalities from a physician users perspective

EHR contracting

Common EHR implementation questions, including what the vendor and purchasers
  should expect to provide

Learning Objectives


Up-to-date knowledge about HIPAA, CMR regulations, Florida statues, and rules
   managing medical records

New Federal and Uniform eDiscovery Rule discussions and tools to manage the
  necessary cataloguing of EHR / EMR systems for future litigation.

How to create and manage a sound electronic record program and perform record
  custodian tasks in today’s complex regulatory and legal environment.

How to institute legal holds in litigation responses.

What records to maintain and how to legally release information from medical records.

Does an EMR increase or decrease physician liability…the biggest question of today’s
  physicians.

Awareness of issues that must be managed in EMR documentation and the use of
  templated Histories & Physicals and notes

What is important to address when contracting for an EHR or EMR.

Sound medical record release, consent and authorization practices.

Polices and procedures to best create defensible legal health records.

Clinical documentation improvement, coding and billing along with how an EHR both
  helps and hurts the objectives of your revenue cycle and liability reduction.