Telemedicine: Current Trends and Emerging Legal Risks
Protecting Patient Privacy, Avoiding Fraud and Abuse Liability, Ensuring Quality of Care
***CMS Will Pay for Some Telemedicine Services Beginning Jan. 1***
Recording of a 90-minute CLE webinar with Q&A
Outline
- Telemedicine update — current trends
- New technologies
- Legislative initiatives
- Globalization of telemedicine
- Privacy and security risks and best practices to minimize liability
- HIPAA
- Electronic transmission of protected health information
- System crashes
- Reimbursement and physician involvement issues
Benefits
The panel will review these and other key questions:
- What new trends are developing in the field of telemedicine?
- How can providers effectively balance the need to access patient information electronically with HIPAA's patient privacy and information security requirements?
- What telemedicine practices give rise to potential fraud and abuse concerns?
Faculty
Deborah A. Randall
Partner
Arent Fox
She focuses on regulatory, reimbursement, corporate and compliance issues for health providers. She advises clients on... | Read More
She focuses on regulatory, reimbursement, corporate and compliance issues for health providers. She advises clients on a range of healthcare legal concerns in the "high tech" healthcare setting.
CloseCheryl S. Camin
Fulbright & Jaworski
She focuses on fraud and abuse, illegal remuneration, referrals, HIPAA and Stark law as each relates to the... | Read More
She focuses on fraud and abuse, illegal remuneration, referrals, HIPAA and Stark law as each relates to the development of various integrated delivery systems and physician practice arrangements. She often speaks on technology, privacy and security issues, particularly HIPAA issues.
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$297