2009 Legal EHR Summit

Patricia A. Markus, JD Partner Smith Moore Leatherwood LLP

Patricia Markus handles healthcare regulatory compliance and patient care matters for physicians, hospitals, and other healthcare providers. She advises North Carolina’s oldest regional health information organization on HIPAA privacy and security issues and regularly consults with healthcare providers about adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) and participation in community health information exchange initiatives. She also serves as the co-chair of the Legal Work Group for the North Carolina Health Information Security and Privacy Collaboration (HISPC) Project, which is recommending legislative and policy solutions designed to increase the exchange of electronic health information among North Carolina and other states’ healthcare industry stakeholders while maintaining appropriate privacy and security protections for such information.

Ms. Markus advises clients and speaks frequently on a broad array of regulatory and operational issues, including HIPAA privacy and security compliance and identity theft issues, health information technology (HIT) and health information exchange (HIE), Stark and the Anti-Kickback Statute, recovery audit contractors and revenue integrity issues, false claims, medical staff issues, physician recruitment, joint ventures, and restrictive covenants and other employment-related issues. Ms. Markus graduated from Haverford College with honors in English, Boston College Law School, and then clerked for an appellate judge in Illinois and for North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Willis P. Whichard before entering private practice in Raleigh.

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