The advent of electronic records has established a new opportunity for errors, which some have called Electronic Health Record (EHR) malpractice, and a new exposure for both medical malpractice insurance underwriters and for Cyber Risk Insurance underwriters. Health records are a critical component of any medical malpractice case, and can be beneficial or detrimental depending on how well the records are maintained. And these health records are all going electronic. Medical practitioners utilize and rely on electronic health records to provide care, and inaccuracies in the records can have significant consequences, both legal and operational. Health records are critical in medical malpractice litigation (see here): In the overwhelming majority of cases, health records are the “single-most important piece of evidence”...
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