Electronic Health Records and Patient Safety: Legal Challenges and Solutions

Electronic Health Records and Emerging Technologies: Attributes, Benefits, and Shortcomings

Dean Sittig, PhD, Professor, Center for Healthcare Quality & Safety, School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston

Nicolas Terry, LLM, Hall Render Professor of Law, Executive Director of the William S. and Christine S. Hall Center for Law and Health, Indiana University, Indianapolis

Darrell Ranum, JD, CPHRM Vice President, Patient Safety, NE Region, The Doctors Company

Scott Lucas, PhD, PE, Director, Accident and Forensic Investigation at ECRI Institute

EHR Certification and Other Regulations: What Exists and What is Missing?

Rachel Nelson, JD, MHA, Branch Chief, Policy Analysis and Implementation, Regulatory Affairs Division, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology

Ross Koppel, PhD, Adjunct Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania; Professor of Biomedical Informatics, the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo

12:45 pm – 1:45 pm

Reed Gelzer, MD, MPH, EHR Data Quality Improvement and Records Risk Analyst for Trustworthy EHR, LLC

Chad Brouillard, MA, JD, Attorney at Foster & Eldridge, LLP

Thomas P. Wolski Jr., DO, FAAP, Pediatrician, Emergency Department, Akron Children’s Hospital, Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Northeast Ohio Medical University

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Sharona Hoffman, JD, LLM, SJD, Professor of Law & Bioethics, Co-Director of Law-Medicine Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Law

James Willig, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Assistant Dean for Clinical Education, Director, Research and Informatics Services Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine

Leah Binder, MA, MGA, President & CEO, The Leapfrog Group

Steve Steffensen, MD, Chief of Learning Health System, Clinical Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School

With input from other panelists