Building on the 2007 Legal EHR Conference, the 2008 conference provides new information and industry expert’s perspectives by delving deeper into current and emerging issues impacting the legal EHR, evidentiary support and records management. This conference addresses key issues in the management of electronic health records in order to support the legal and business needs of healthcare organizations, and will help you understand how the EHR will impact the legal process as well as the new emerging issues including risks and liabilities.  The conference will feature multiple tracks and expert panelists and presenters.

How You Will Benefit

• Ensure your facility’s EHR systems integrity so your EHRs can provide evidentiary support in legal proceedings

• Learn from a wide spectrum of information, from introductory to advanced

• Network and discuss current practice issues as well as industry-level policy issues with other attendees

• Boost your expertise with panel discussions and expert presentations from key stakeholder groups

• Equip yourself with the necessary information to handle new and emerging legal EHR issues when you get practical advice from HIM, IT, and legal experts

Call for presentations now closed!

AHIMA is calling for presentation submissions focusing on key summit priorities including; contracts and negotiations, corporate compliance, E-discovery processes, EHRs in litigation, electronic records management and enterprise content management including records/content lifecycle mangement, fraud management, information security practices, information custodianship, guardianship and stewardship, organizational practices and system functionality to support the legal health record and data integrity, organizational strategy, provider liability and standard of care issues relative to the EHR and the EHR as the legal business record. Abstracts will be accepted through Monday, April 14, 2008.

Earn up to 14 CEU's for this two-day program

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