Learn to identify and apply these differing and conflicting rules with respect to the specific health care practitioner, the specific health care facility practice, and the emerging rules and regulations for electronic medical records confidentiality, security, and disposition. This program offers an objective, thorough review of the sources of requirements for the retention and disposition of medical records as well as instruction for the individual health care practitioner and the health care facility as an organization. Areas Covered in the Session:Sources of legal requirements for medical records retention;Sources of contractual requirements for medical records retention;What information is mandated to be in a specific health care practitioner's medical record;Facility rules as applied to the individual health care practitioner;Electronic records confidentiality, retention, and disposition;Professional wills and business succession plans for the health care practitioner to govern the retention of medical records;Reasons for creating and implementing a medical records policy for the health care practitioner's withdrawal from practice, incapacity, or death