Healthcare Attorneys: New Business Relationships Will Create New EHR Problems

Marla Durben Hirsch | FierceEMR | December 19, 2013

The healthcare industry already has experienced several unintended issues related to electronic health records, many of which involve patient safety and upcoding. But as implementation of EHRs begins to mature and providers step up integration in response to health reform, there will be additional unanticipated operational and business problems involving EHRs that will arise.

Health law attorneys Michael Kline and Elizabeth Litten with Fox Rothschild in Princeton, N.J., shared some of these forthcoming problems in a recent exclusive interview with FierceEMR.

FierceEMR: Why will providers entering new business deals with each other run into new problems with EHRs?

Litten (right): EHRs are very beneficial, but these new relationships open questions of ownership of the patient information. Who has access to what information and who will pay for it? [...]