"The Legal Health Record:Regulations, Policies, and Guidance explains, from a record manager’s perspective, how to create and execute projects that result in medical records that are better organized and increasingly offer better legal defensibility. As the migration toward electronic records from older paper environments continues, professionals responsible for addressing this evolution will find content in this book that assists in meeting the challenges these changes bring to every healthcare provider and the court system.\\The tools and strategies provided in The Legal Health Record, straddles the legal and record management/ information technology arenas. The text illustrates how to lead and motivate teams through the numerous processes necessary to clearly understand and organize strategies and workflows." Publisher description.

Rev. ed. of: Legal health record / Cheryl E. Servais ; Neil S. Olderman and Kelly A. Trahan, technical editors. [1st]. c2008.

Introducing legal health records -- Setting the Stage for Legal Health Records -- Creating a Legal Health Record Definition Project -- Defining the components of a legal health record - Litigation response policy and procedures - EHR system attributes that impact legal health record definitions and e-Discovery -- E-Discovery Overview - Key legal concepts - Other key EHR concepts.