Legal and ethical aspects of health information management


TEXTBOOK: Legal and Ethical Aspects of Health Information Management by McWay 4th edition.

1. What are the legal uses of the health record?

2. Are the entries made in the health record ordinarily subject to cross-examination? Why or why not?

3. What questions are typically presented to the custodian of records in order to introduce a health record into evidence?

4. What legal process may be used to remove the health record from the health care provider’s safekeeping?

5. Compare and contrast a subpoena, a subpoena ad testificandum and a subpoena ducestecum.

6. Should the health information professional assume that each subpoena presented requires the release of the information requested? Why or why not?

 

7. How should the health information professional handle an invalid subpoena duces tecum?

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