Description
Explore how authentication or failure to authenticate can impact a healthcare organizations operations.
This topic aims to educate you on the means and importance of properly authenticating medical records (in an EHR format). Authentication is a key principle for any document to be used in a legal context but is particularly important for healthcare providers and organizations in reimbursement appeals, liability matters, and peer review. In the material, we will review key terms, distinguish between different types and means of authentication, and explore how authentication (or failure to authenticate) can impact a healthcare organizations operations.
Date: 2022-12-08 Start Time: 1:00 PM ET End Time: 2:05 PM ET
Learning Objectives
* You will be able to define authentication and nonrepudiation.
* You will be able to identify three different methods of authentication.
* You will be able to discuss the importance of properly authenticating medical records in an EHR format.
* You will be able to explain how failure to authenticate can impact a healthcare organizations operation.