1. Health Information and the Law -- 2. Purposes of Health Information -- 3. What is Health Information? -- 4. Standards for Health Information -- 5. Retention, Storage and Disposal -- 6. Health Information as Evidence -- 7. Access to Health Information -- 8. Confidentiality, Privacy and Disclosure to Third Parties -- 9. Digitization and Information Linkage -- 10. Electronic Communications and Health Information -- 11. Documenting Treatment Orders -- 12. Documenting Health Information -- 13. Documenting Consent -- 14. Defamation -- 15. Employee Health Information -- 16. Human Research and Health Information -- 17. Risk Management in Health Information -- 18. Case Studies -- 19. Prototype Policies and Procedures -- Appendix -- Form #1. Consent to treatment -- Form #2. General consent language for brain-CODE -- Form #3. Permission to take photographs of patient -- Form #4. Researcher’s confidentiality pledge/Confidentiality agreement -- Form #5. Patient’s property release -- Form #6. Temporary absence from hospital -- Form #7. Patient leaving health facility against medical advice -- Form #8. Consent to the release of information -- Form #9. Data & biological sample transfer agreement -- Form #10. Privacy compliance checklist -- Form #11. Emergency Department screening tool.
Patient safety: crossing the chasm from legal and regulatory compliance / Fay A. Rozovsky -- Patient safety laws and regulations / Ronni P. Solomon -- Medical error reduction initiatives among accreditation and standard-setting organizations / Fay A. Rozovsky -- Failure modes and effects analysis: the risks and the rewards in health care / Robert J. Latino -- Medication error reduction: voluntary and regulatory oversight / David M. Benjamin, John P. Santell -- Benchmarking: evidence-based outcome information and standards of care / Peter J. Pronovost, Fay A. Rozovsky -- Creation and preservation of reports, data, and device evidence in medical error situations / Jane C. McConnell, Susan Durbin Kinter -- Claims management risks in patient safety events / Pamela L. Papp -- Full disclosure / James R. Woods Jr. -- Patient safety in human research / Rodney K. Adams -- Medical error reporting: maintaining confidentiality in the face of litigation / Frederick Robinson, Lara E. Parkin -- Managing patient safety compliance with health professionals / Mark A. Kadzielski, Christina W. Giles -- Planning for the future / Fay A. Rozovsky, James R. Woods Jr.