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Do electronic medical records actually help improve medical care? Is it possible they hinder it?
Aaron Freiwald, Managing Partner of Freiwald Law and host of the weekly podcast, Good Law | Bad Law, is joined by Professor Sharona Hoffman, of the School of Law at Case Western Reserve University, to discuss the role of electronic medical record systems, often shortened to EMR or EHR (electronic health record), and how they really affect the medical care we receive.
Sharona’s book, Electronic Health Records and Medical Big Data: Law and Policy, provides an in-depth understanding of EMR systems, how big data is handled in the medical industry, and the regulations surrounding our personal information. In today’s conversation, Aaron and Sharona are delving into all of the ups and downs of electronic medical records, discussing data security and patient privacy, the power of computerization, Medicare spending and the notion of upcoding, the law’s response to these systems, and more. What should patients be aware of? Are we being overcharged? What are the difficulties in digitizing records? And moreover, why aren’t we hearing more about it?
A graduate of Harvard Law, Professor Hoffman is the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University, as well as a Professor of Bioethics and a Co-Director of the Law School’s Law-Medicine center. She teaches Health Law courses, Employment Discrimination, and Civil Procedure. Sharona was voted First Year Teacher of the Year in 2011 and 2012. She also served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 2006 to 2009 and won the 2014 Distinguished Teacher Award.
Before she was an academic, Professor Hoffman was a Senior Trial Attorney at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Houston, a litigation associate at O’Melveny & Myers in L.A., and a judicial clerk for U.S. District Judge Douglas W. Hillman in the Western District of Michigan. An established author, Sharona has published over sixty articles and book chapters on health law and civil rights issues. She has developed particular expertise and a national reputation in the area of health information technology, with her work appearing in the Georgetown Law Journal, William & Mary Law Review, the Boston College Law Review, and many others.
For more information on Professor Hoffman, please visit her bio page here.
To check out Prof. Hoffman’s book, Electronic Health Records and Medical Big Data: Law and Policy, please click here.
Host: Aaron Freiwald
Guests: Sharona Hoffman
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By Aaron FreiwaldDo electronic medical records actually help improve medical care? Is it possible they hinder it?
Aaron Freiwald, Managing Partner of Freiwald Law and host of the weekly podcast, Good Law | Bad Law, is joined by Professor Sharona Hoffman, of the School of Law at Case Western Reserve University, to discuss the role of electronic medical record systems, often shortened to EMR or EHR (electronic health record), and how they really affect the medical care we receive.
Sharona’s book, Electronic Health Records and Medical Big Data: Law and Policy, provides an in-depth understanding of EMR systems, how big data is handled in the medical industry, and the regulations surrounding our personal information. In today’s conversation, Aaron and Sharona are delving into all of the ups and downs of electronic medical records, discussing data security and patient privacy, the power of computerization, Medicare spending and the notion of upcoding, the law’s response to these systems, and more. What should patients be aware of? Are we being overcharged? What are the difficulties in digitizing records? And moreover, why aren’t we hearing more about it?
A graduate of Harvard Law, Professor Hoffman is the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University, as well as a Professor of Bioethics and a Co-Director of the Law School’s Law-Medicine center. She teaches Health Law courses, Employment Discrimination, and Civil Procedure. Sharona was voted First Year Teacher of the Year in 2011 and 2012. She also served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 2006 to 2009 and won the 2014 Distinguished Teacher Award.
Before she was an academic, Professor Hoffman was a Senior Trial Attorney at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Houston, a litigation associate at O’Melveny & Myers in L.A., and a judicial clerk for U.S. District Judge Douglas W. Hillman in the Western District of Michigan. An established author, Sharona has published over sixty articles and book chapters on health law and civil rights issues. She has developed particular expertise and a national reputation in the area of health information technology, with her work appearing in the Georgetown Law Journal, William & Mary Law Review, the Boston College Law Review, and many others.
For more information on Professor Hoffman, please visit her bio page here.
To check out Prof. Hoffman’s book, Electronic Health Records and Medical Big Data: Law and Policy, please click here.
Host: Aaron Freiwald
Guests: Sharona Hoffman
Follow Good Law | Bad Law:
YouTube: Good Law | Bad Law
Facebook: @GOODLAWBADLAW
Instagram: @GoodLawBadLaw
Website: https://www.law-podcast.com