Electronic Health Records Expert Witnesses
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What is an electronic health records expert witness?
Electronic health records expert witness candidates typically have expertise in healthcare system administration, health law and policy, computer science, medical billing, medical record review, information technology, and/or healthcare compliance. The chosen expert could be associated with a health information industry organization such as the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), the Healthcare Business Management Association (HBMA), HL7 International, the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), or the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI).
What types of cases require an electronic health records expert witness?
Example litigation support matters requiring an expert in electronic health record technology include medical malpractice cases, intellectual property (patent infringement, trade secrets), false claims, and health insurance fraud. Cahn Litigation Services has placed many EHR experts.
Representative cases have encompassed:
- internal medicine medical coding,
- Medicaid or Medicare medical billing,
- insurance reimbursement case in Arizona,
- inpatient mental health standard of care,
- source code,
- meaningful use,
- cybersecurity,
- graphical user interface,
- False Claims Act,
- Office of Inspector General (OIG) fraud,
- health information technology valuation,
- software development,
- The Affordable Care Act (ACA),
- critical care or personal injury case documentation,
- Illinois EHR system technology US patent infringement,
- clinical informatics,
- HIPAA privacy violation matters,
- life care planning,
- New York medical history EMR breach, and
- medical malpractice.
What litigation support work might an electronic health records expert witness be expected to perform?
Expert witness services from an expert in electronic health records could include expert report preparation, computer forensics, expert opinion, deposition testimony, and courtroom testimony. A forensic expert is often called upon to educate the court on details about electronic evidence. An electronic health records expert witness could work alongside a clinician or medical expert to support a case.
In a high-profile case, or litigation involving a significant financial stake, the lead attorney may request a professional with prior expert witness testimony experience. An expert witness must not only have the appropriate substantive expertise but should also possess the ability to explain the facts of the case to a judge and jury.
Cahn Litigation Services has the experience required to turn a search for an expert witness around quickly. The firm has years of experience providing law firms with health information technology candidates with the right balance of expertise and testimony experience to support each unique project.
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Electronic Health Records Expert Witness - Representative Bios
Please Note: All Cahn Litigation expert witness searches are customized to attorneys' precise specifications and preferences. Attorneys are encouraged to discuss search parameters with a Cahn search specialist.
The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Electronic Health Records experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Electronic Health Records landscape.
Expert Witness #250690
This expert has been in the health care IT field for many years and has been actively been involved in EHR implementations. This expert has been involved in over 200 Hospital implementations and has worked with over 26,000 physicians on their EHR decisions and implementations. This expert has also been involved in over 150 replacements of older or discontinued healthcare specific applications, and has been evaluating EHR products and publishing a report with 3,000+ functionality. This expert has extensive experience in health care redesign and organizational restructuring along with a comprehensive background in start-up and replacement of multi-facility health information platforms, including financial, clinical, managed care and decision support systems. This expert tracks industry trends, conducts member surveys, publishes case studies, assesses best practices, and performs benchmarking studies, and evaluates over 70 product categories within healthcare that are offered by more than 500 software, RCM, and Value Based Reimbursement (VBR) vendors that are in the care Coordination and Population Health Marketplace. This expert specializes in the evaluation, selection, and ranking of vendors in the VBR, RCM, HIE, and PMS/EHR hospital and physician healthcare marketplace. Annually this expert publishes a detailed report on VBR, HIE, and PMS/EHR software product functional, usability, and company viability. This evaluation decision tool has been used by more than 25,000 physicians, more than 20 ACOs/IPAs, and over 200 Hospitals. Additionally, this expert has conducted more than 400 PMS/EHR searches, selections, and contract negotiations for small physician offices to large IPA.
This expert provides independent advisory and consultative services designed to assist physicians and hospitals in evaluating and selecting technology to enable the creation of a digital medical office of the future. For Hospital clients, this expert conducts operational reviews, technology selections, and assists in development of long range plans. This expert has extensive prior litigation experience including deposition and courtroom testimony.
Start Electronic Health Records Expert SearchExpert Witness #262476
This expert is a nationally recognized subject matter expert in healthcare information management, quality management, and compliance. This expert has conducted healthcare fraud and abuse coding compliance defense reviews and clinical documentation audits for healthcare organizations. This expert has worked as a compliance consultant and conducted medically necessity reviews for healthcare organizations and law, having worked on Urology specifically.
This expert is a national speaker, author and adjunct professor on the topics of health information operations, information governance, e-discovery and healthcare compliance. This expert is an active member of the Health Level Seven (HL-7) Working Group, responsible for the review and development of the Records Management and Evidentiary Support (RM-ES) profile for the design and development of the functional profile for electronic health record systems. This expert has also been an active member and contributor in AHIMA task forces and working groups related to information governance and the functional design and profile of electronic health record (EHR) systems. This expert is a member of The Sedona Conference Working Group on Best Practices for Electronic Document Retention and Production, the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), the Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS), the American Society for Healthcare. This expert holds an MBA, a Master of Jurisprudence degree in Health Law and Policy, and Post Baccalaureate in Clinical Informatics. This expert has provided expert witness services to both plaintiff and defense counsel.
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