Medical Ethics and Legal Medicine Eastern Caribbean Cruise 2017

Topics

• REGULATION OF MEDICAL AND TELEMEDICINE PRACTICES - 2 Hours
  • Federal and State Laws & Regulations
  • Starting a Telemedicine Practice
  • State Licensing: Doctors without Borders (FSMB)
  • Affordable Care Act and Accountable Care Organizations
  • Privacy, Confidentiality and Security (HIPAA)
  • Medicine & Telemedicine Credentialing and Privileging
  • Fraud, Abuse, Antitrust & Stark Laws
• ETHICAL ASPECTS OF MEDICINE & TELEMEDICINE - 1 Hour
  • Telemedicine in the 21st Century
  • Professionalism, Communication and Etiquette
• END-OF-LIFE DECISIONS - Ethical and Legal Issues - 1 Hour
  • Classification of Euthanasia
  • The Dying Process
  • Determination of Death
  • Physician Aid in Dying and Hospice Care
• ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS (EHR) versus ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS (EMR) - 1 Hour
  • Meaningful Use Stages I, 2 (2014) and 3 (2016)
  • Current State of Implementation of Health Information Technology (HIT)
  • EHR Malpractice Liability
  • Electronic Informed Consent
• OFFICIAL DISABILITY GUIDELINES AND AMA GUIDES IN WORKERS COMPENSATION AND NON-OCCUPATIONAL INJURIES - 1 Hour
  • Official Disability Guidelines
  • Evidence Based Medicine
  • Return to Work Guidelines
  • Rating Impairment under AMA Guides
• FEDERAL AND STATE REGULATION OF PAIN MANAGEMENT - 2 Hours
  • REMS (Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy) Program
  • Controlled Substances Act Standard of Pain Treatment
  • Pain Management State Guidelines, Laws and Rules
  • Monitoring Programs and Disposal of controlled substances
  • MEDICAL AND FORENSIC EXPERT WITNESS AND TESTIMONY - 1 Hour
  • Addiction, Death and Pain Malpractice
  • Deposition of Expert Witness
  • Federal and State Rules of Evidence Governing Expert Witnesses
  • Daubert Challenges of Experts
  • Direct and Cross Examination of Expert at Trial
• MEDICAL MALPRACTICE MOCK TRIAL - 2 Hours
  • MOCK TRIAL: Never Event Medical Error
• MEDICAL, TELEMEDICAL & NURSING MALPRACTICE - 3 Hours
  • Medical Negligence: Causes, Prevention and Defenses
  • American Law and Judicial Process
  • Capacity, Competency, Informed Consent and Informed Refusal
  • Spoliation of Evidence in Medical Records
  • Malpractice Case Presentations
  • Liability of MCOs, ACOs, Hospitals, CRNAs, Nurses, PAs and Nurse Practitioners

Who should Attend

• Physician Assistants
• Physicians
• Nurse Practitioners
• Nurses