As telehealth expands and technology improves, there are an increasing number of options for communication between healthcare providers and patients as well as between providers, but such services raise concerns for HIPAA compliance due to the method of transmission and issues of security...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 28, Issue 4
Plus, hospital employees fired for accessing actor’s medical records, senators ask for old privacy regulation to be removed, and Match results hint at future of physician workforce
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 28, Issue 4
The Supreme Court of Utah (the “Court”) affirmed a district court’s decision that there is no exception to the non-discoverability of privileged peer review documents for information that is provided in bad faith. An exception applies only in terms of liability; that is, a person who provides...
Collegial intervention is an administrative attempt to resolve issues informally, rather than go down the road of formal corrective action, which is difficult for all involved, says Sarah Coyne, partner at Quarles & Brady LLP.
As news of Christopher Duntsch’s botched surgeries broke and the public began to realize the catastrophic proportions of this disaster, it became clear that Duntsch would find himself in the legal arena. While people may have assumed that Duntsch would face civil actions, he also had his day in...
