Assignment Task:
As the new privacy officer of St. Stephen's Hospital, you establish an e-discovery committee after learning that several legal cases were settled due to premature record destruction. Several task force members propose that the hospital's attorney notify the privacy officer when litigation has begun so that the e-discovery process can be initiated internally. However, your proposal is to identify situations that may trigger litigation in the first place, so that the organization can be proactive in managing the associated documents. What triggers would you recommend to the task force for inclusion in the e-discovery policy and why? Want Assignment Help?
Then the HIM director is a reluctant participant in the task force because he is unsure what skills he brings to the endeavor and presumes this is mostly an IT concern.
Do you believe that his knowledge base brings value to the task force that can influence the e-discovery policy and why or why not?