Altered records, hospital playing dumb? Audit trail will conclusively demonstrate the identity of each system user, the date and time of access and what the user did each time the record was accessed: “view the record, create an entry, edit an entry or delete an entry.” Here is the COMMON HOSPITAL RISK MANAGEMENT LIE used to avoid handing over the clinical audit log. When queried, many hospitals claim that they have no capability to retrieve audit trail information or that they aren’t required to preserve it. They are simply wrong. A combination of various federal statutes and regulations, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act require hospitals using EHR systems to create and preserve audit trail information. OR is your attorney playing dumb? Most lawyers’ standard requests to produce in medical negligence cases do not include requests for audit-trail
Posted on: Sun, 05 Oct 2014 02:16:51 +0000
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