April 5/Cleveland + Web: Balancing Privacy, Autonomy, and Scientific Progress: Patients' Rights in the Use of Electronic Medical Records for Non-Treatment Purposes

This program will focus on the impact of the transition from paper medical files to electronic health records outside of the clinical setting. Computerization will enable researchers, public health officials, and others to obtain unprecedented amounts of data that can be used to achieve significant medical and social advances. However, a tension exists between maximizing the benefits of secondary (non-clinical) use of electronic health information (EHI) and deferring to patient preferences regarding what is done with their EHI. Secondary data use thus raises complicated questions about patient autonomy, privacy protections, and the degree to which the potential to promote the common good should supersede concerns about risks to individuals. This program will bring together a distinguished group of experts to explore these fascinating issues.
Health Matrix: Journal of Law-Medicine, one of the most prestigious health law journals in the country, will publish the articles generated by the symposium (Volume 23, Issue 2, due out Spring 2013).
Title:
Balancing Privacy, Autonomy, and Scientific Progress: Patients' Rights in the Use of Electronic Medical Records for Non-Treatment Purposes
When/Where:
April 5, 2013
9 AM - 5 PM
Moot Court Room (A59)
11075 East Blvd
Cleveland, Ohio 44106
Also Webcast

Speakers:

• Barbara Evans, University of Houston Professor of Law, Co-director, Health Law & Policy Institute. Director, Center on Biotech
• Malia Fullerton, Associate Professor of Bioethics and Humanities,  University of Washington
• Anil Jain, SVP & Chief Medical Information Officer at Explorys, Inc.
• Sharona Hoffman, Professor of Law, Professor of Bioethics, Co-Director, Law-Medicine Center
• Dr. David Kaelber, Chief Medical Informatics Officer, MetroHealth, Assistant Professor, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
• Andy Podgurski, Case Western Reserve University, 
• Suzanne Rivera, Associate Vice President for Research, Assistant Professor of Bioethics, Case Western Reserve University
• Marc Rodwin, Professor of Law, Suffolk
• Mark Rothstein, Director of the Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law, Louisville 
• Nancy Staudt, Academic Director of the Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy, Professor of Law and Public Policy, USC
• Nic Terry, Professor of Law, Indiana, Co-director of the William S. and Christine S. Hall Center for Law and Health 

By:
Case Western Reserve University Law-Medicine Center
More:
http://law.case.edu/Lectures.aspx?lec_id=331

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