CAP invites you to attend the 59th Annual Health Law & Legal Medicine Annual Meeting. CAP is proud to sponsor this event taking place February 21 – 24, 2019 at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. 

The increasing use of electronic health records (EHR) has resulted in an increased ability to electronically track activities that occur within a specific medical record. This is accomplished by review of the metadata, audit trails, or audit logs. 

A California appellate court has ruled that an expert’s declaration that a hospital followed a physician’s orders to monitor two troubled young patients was not enough to establish that the facility met its duty to a patient who claimed he was sexually assaulted by his roommate.

Gordon Ownby, general counsel of the Cooperative of American Physicians, offers examples of litigated cases which may have been avoided had physicians trusted their initial instincts in treating their patients.

When reporting their findings, it is common to see consulting physicians recommend further testing. Absent such an explicit recommendation, a patient’s decision to bypass conservative measures can spell trouble for all.