Disposition of Records and Records Retention for Medical Records, Including Electronic Records, covers basic perspectives and reviews models of state-mandated record-keeping laws in professional regulation with an emphasis on the health care professions.  This course also covers the difference in government regulation and private requirements for record-keeping.

While many people work in a health care setting, licensed professionals constitute a significant number – this includes physicians, nurses, physical therapists, respiratory care therapists, and others.

Each profession has differing requirements for record-keeping.  Differing and even conflicting sources of requirements exist for the retention and disposition of medical records, which may vary based upon the specific health care practitioner.  Special rules now exist regarding the confidentiality, security, retention, and disposition of electronic medical records.

Differing and conflicting rules with respect to the specific health care practitioner, the specific health care facility practice, and the emerging rules and regulations for electronic medical records confidentiality, security, and disposition will be examined.  Government legal requirements for records content and retention are contrasted with private requirements, such as those required by private insurance companies for malpractice insurance for individual health care practitioners.

Finally, what happens to medical records when the health care practitioner leaves the practice or dies?  An innovative and new concept in this webinar will show you how to set up a records retention and transfer for the safe and secure handling of patient medical records – either through a group practice or individual practitioner – when an individual health care practitioner leaves the practice, is injured or ill, or dies.

Course Objectives:

Individual health care practitioners in private practice and medical records directors at health care facilities may be confused on how long to retain medical records in a complex health services environment with many different health care practitioners.  If or when a length of time is established, the practitioners and directors need to know whether and how to dispose of medical records.  For example, does having digital records require records to be kept indefinitely, or does it simply allow it?  Even if you can keep a medical record indefinitely in an electronic format, is it wise to do so?

There are differing and conflicting sources of requirements for the retention and disposition of medical records, which may vary based upon the specific health care practitioner.  Attendees will review special rules existing regarding the confidentiality, security, retention, and disposition of electronic medical records.

Attendees to this webinar will learn to identify and apply these differing and conflicting rules with respect to the specific health care practitioner, the specific health care facility practice, and the emerging rules and regulations for electronic medical records confidentiality, security, and disposition.

Course Outline:

• Sources of legal requirements for medical records retention;
• Sources of contractual requirements for medical records retention;
• What information is mandated to be in a specific health care practitioner’s medical record;
• Facility rules as applied to the individual health care practitioner;
• Electronic records confidentiality, retention, and disposition;
• Professional wills and business succession plans for the health care practitioner to govern the retention of medical records;
• Reasons for creating and implementing a medical records policy for the health care practitioner’s withdrawal from practice, incapacity, or death.

What You Get:

• Training Materials
•  Live Q&A Session with our Expert
•  Participation Certificate
•  Access to Signup Community (Optional)
•  Reward Points

Who Will Benefit:

Health care facilities; medical offices; hospitals; Individual health care practitioners; health care attorneys; corporate counsel in health care; medical records directors.

• Licensed health care practitioners in private practice
• Medical directors of health facilities
• Office managers and medical directors of private medical offices
• Health care law attorneys
• Corporate counsel in health care
• Health care administrators