Description:
A firm understanding of the medicolegal process and what is hiding in your client’s records will make your practice more efficient.
This topic has been tailored specifically for legal professionals who are routinely required to acquire, summarize and utilize patient health information in their practice. Learn the necessary medical issues from an experienced attorney with more than a decade of experience in representing health care providers.
Many of the common medical issues facing legal professionals will be addressed. What does the ‘OS’ and ‘OD’ mean in my client’s eye records? What does ‘Q 4 hours’ mean? How can I prove the family physician received the patient’s radiology studies? What records are afforded extra privacy protections? These questions and more will be addressed in this material.
Make your practice more efficient and learn more about your client’s case. A firm understanding of the medicolegal process will help you decipher the medical issues and provide you with more information from the patients’ records than you knew were present.
Areas Covered in the Session:
Charting Basics
• SOAP
• Charting by Exception
• Record Types
• Corrections
Common Medical Terms
Medical Abbreviations
• Common Abbreviations
• Abbreviations From Other Medical Specialties
Special Issues
• "Never Events"
• Electronic Medical Records
• Medical Information Timing and Transfer Issues
• Peer Review or Investigative File
• Records That Require Specific Privacy Protections
• Legibility Issues
Dirty Little Secrets of Charting
• Timing
• Accuracy
• Common Charting Pitfalls
Credit Information (Sponsored by Lorman Education Services):
- CLE
- NALA
- NFPA
- Paralegals
Only registered attendee will receive continuing education credit.
Instructor Profile:
Matthew P. Keris, Esq., Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin
- Shareholder in the office of Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin
- Practice emphasizes 20 years' representation of hospitals and health care systems in medical professional liability claims
- Conducts regular seminars and workshops on numerous medical malpractice, professional liability and electronic medical records issues
- Author of several publications related to the areas of medical malpractice, professional liability and electronic medical records issues and wrote the ThomsonReuters book, Electronic Medical Records and Litigation
- J.D. degree, Roger Williams University School of Law; B.A. degree, cum laude, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania
- Past president, Pennsylvania Defense Institute; president, Pennsylvania Association for Healthcare Risk Management; ASHRM; DRI; CLM
- Can be contacted at mpkeris@mdwcg.com or 570-496-4602
(Not available outside the US)