Health Information and Technology and Hospitals and Health Systems Practice Groups Joint Mid-Year Luncheon 

Title: The Promise of E-Health: Patient Safety, Provider Liability, and Health Information Technology

Health information technology (HIT) will soon be a fixture in medical offices. This talk will analyze the benefits and risks of this technology and assess how it can both improve health outcomes and pose liability risks for healthcare providers. The luncheon will also outline recent regulations that have been enacted to govern HIT, critique them, and suggest interventions that could enhance the quality, safety, and security of HIT implementations.

Presenters:

Sharona Hoffman, JD, LLM
Professor of Law and Bioethics
Co-Director of the Law-Medicine Center
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Cleveland, OH

Jacob Reider, MD
Chief Medical Informatics Officer
Allscripts
Albany, NY