Extract from Doug Austin’s article “There Are More Challenges in Managing Discovery in Healthcare Than You Probably Realize”
A few months ago on this blog, I wrote about using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to keep up with the “alphabet soup” of compliance. An important area to address from a compliance standpoint is health data and at least two of the “alphabet soup” of organizations and regulations addressing compliance – the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Protected Health Information (PHI) – specifically address the protection of personal health data.
But another challenge with regard to healthcare is discovery itself and there are many eDiscovery challenges associated with healthcare today–probably even more than you realize. There are certainly more challenges than I realized.
eDiscovery Challenges in Healthcare
The article titled eDiscovery Challenges in Healthcare, written by Sundar Krishnan and Narasimha Shashidhar from Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas (in 2019, even before the pandemic added more challenges) discusses several considerations for eDiscovery in healthcare, including the types of litigations related to healthcare and the types of data for corporate IT healthcare.
