Table 1 Framework of key issues for e-discovery in EHR
From: Emerging issues for education in E-discovery for electronic health records
Domains | Key issues | |
|---|---|---|
EHR Systems | Development in EHR | Techniques in EHR systems to facilitate e-discovery |
Information sharing and data interoperability | ||
Metrics for EHR systems quality control | ||
Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) to optimize EHR system use | ||
Audit trails/metadata search techniques | ||
Advances in Health 2.0 | ||
E-Discovery policy and strategy | Policies and processes for electronic records management | |
Economics of cost | ||
Legal hold policies to handle preservation of relevant documents | ||
Security and privacy | Information privacy and data confidentiality | |
Access controls and policies for EHR | ||
Management of patient consent | ||
HITECH and HIPAA privacy and security rules | ||
Cloud Computing and big data | Data analytics | |
Data preservation and control policies | ||
Thresholds of relevancy for evidence to be admissible | ||