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Providers often use electronic medical record (EMR) functions that result in authorship falsification, disabling of auditing functions, and document misattribution without realizing the legal implications of these functions, says Reed D. Gelzer, MD, MPH, founder of Trustworthy EHR, a Newbury, NH-based data quality and information integrity consultancy specializing in the legal aspects of EMRs.
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(Editor’s Note: This is the second story in a two-part series on apology laws. This month, we report on how a physician’s apology could affect the outcome of a malpractice suit. Last month, we covered a recent court ruling distinguishing between apologies that express sympathy and those that acknowledge fault.)
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To avoid malpractice claims resulting from a patient’s failure to follow up with recommended care, physicians should use electronic medical records (EMRs) to document their follow-up efforts, advises Sharona Hoffman, JD, LLM, co-director of the Law-Medicine Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Law in Cleveland, OH.
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Requests for metadata are increasing the cost of malpractice litigation, because it requires that attorneys invest time and money to determine its meaning.
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Many plaintiff attorneys now routinely request metadata from electronic medical records (EMRs), but in some cases, it ends up helping the defense.
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Bedsider (www.bedsider.org), an online birth control support network operated by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, has collaborated with the California Department of Public Health STD Control Branch and the California Family Health Council to expand the InTOUCH reminder system that was successfully piloted in California to a national scale.
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Results of a national study indicate it is not uncommon for women to have prolonged bleeding of 10 or more days, spotting for six or more days, and/or heavy bleeding for three or more days during the transition to menopause.
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Insurance coverage of abortion was one of the final sticking points during enactment of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and it has continued to be a rallying cry for ACA opponents in the years since.
