The Legal Health Record: Regulations, Policies, and Guidelines

The Legal Health Record:Regulations, Policies, and Guidance explains, from a record manager's perspective, how to create and execute projects that result in medical records that are better organized and increasingly offer better legal defensibility. As the migration toward electronic records from older paper environments continues, professionals responsible for addressing this evolution will find content in this book that assists in meeting the challenges these changes bring to every healthcare provider and the court system. The tools and strategies provided in The Legal Health Record, straddles the legal and record management/ information technology arenas. The text illustrates how to lead and motivate teams through the numerous processes necessary to clearly understand and organize strategies and workflows. Key Features:
• New! Updated, expanded explanatory information
• New! Numerous customizable forms and templates
• Defines the components of the legal health record
• Guides you through litigation response and subpoenas
• Discusses EHR system attributes that affect the legal health record
• Detailed overview of e-Discovery, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and Uniform Rules