Ethical Challenges in the Management of Health Information, Second Edition -and- Medical Records and the Law, Fourth Edition: .

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About the Author :
William H. Roach, Jr., is a partner in the Chicago office of McDermott Will & Emery LLP based in the firm's Chicago office. Mr. Roach's experience includes the formation of regional and national hospital systems; mergers, acquisitions, affiliations, and dispositions of healthcare facilities and systems; joint sponsorship of faith-based healthcare facilities and systems; corporate reorganizations; hospital/ physician integration arrangements; health industry joint ventures; creation and implementation of corporate compliance plans; focused compliance reviews; tax-exempt organizations; and medical staff organization, credentialing, and contracts. He has served as in-house general counsel of two large academic medical centers, and he has also represented institutions of higher education in matters relating to governance, student records, joint ventures, and faculty organization. Mr. Roach is a member of the editorial advisory boards of numerous professional journals, including Briefings on HIPAA and Medical Records Briefing, and a contributing editor of the Hospital Law Manual. Mr. Roach is recognized for his experience in the law governing the use of healthcare information and regularly advises healthcare providers, ancillary service providers, and manufacturers concerning HIPAA compliance matters. He received his J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School, his M.S. from the University of Pittsburgh, and his A.B. from Columbia University. Robert G.Hoban is counsel in the Chicago office of McDermott Will & Emery LLP. He was previously general counsel to a major suburban Chicago healthcare system, where he also served as its chief planning officer. Since 1975, Mr. Hoban has served as borrower's counsel for more than $1.5 billion of tax-exempt bond financing transactions for hospitals throughout the country, and has served as counsel in connection with hospital restructurings and mergers, revision of corporate and medical staff bylaws, and negotiations of unified medical staff bylaws. He has assisted clients in the development of hospital-physician joint ventures, structuring hospital risk management programs, establishment of physician practice management entities, and other aspects of corporate hospital organization. Mr. Hoban has established ambulatory surgery centers and has acted as a consultant to physicians with regard to practice mergers. He also has experience with the formation of HMOs,PHOs, MSOs, and IPAs; and the construction, financing, and leasing of medical office buildings and imaging centers.Mr. Hoban has also presented seminars on medical staff credentialing, the liability aspects of risk management programs, discharge planning, release of medical records, and the legal concerns of palliative medicine. He received his J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law and his B.A. from Yale University. Bernadette M. Broccolo is a partner in the Chicago office of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and has been advising health industry organizations for 25 years on legal and regulatory compliance matters, information technology acquisition, and health information privacy. Her general health practice includes federal taxation of exempt organizations, corporate governance and restructurings, hospital-physician relationships, and clinical research compliance counseling. Ms. Broccolo's health information technology practice includes drafting and negotiating agreements for the development and acquisition of healthcare information and telecommunication systems. She also advises health clients on the complex legal considerations involved in the electronic exchange, and other uses and disclosures, of health information, including the requirements imposed by HIPAA and other privacy and confidentiality laws. She is currently serving on the HIPAA Task Force appointed by the governor of the state of Illinois to focus on HIPAA preemption and other state law implications of HIPAA compliance. Ms. Broccolo currently serves as a member of the Governing Council of the American Bar Association's Health Law Section, and is the immediate past chair of the Health Law Section's Tax & Accounting Interest Group. She received her J.D. from the Notre Dame Law School, and her B.S. from Boston College. Andrew B. Roth is the partner-in-charge of the New York health law practice of McDermott Will & Emery, LLP. Mr. Roth represents health industry clients on transactional and regulatory matters, including healthcare networks, integrated delivery systems, hospitals, managed care companies, physicians, and others. His practice extends to many medical/legal areas, including mergers and acquisitions, fraud and abuse, corporate compliance, and long-term healthcare facility representation. Mr. Roth also has a national practice involving accreditation of graduate medical education programs in academic medical centers and teaching hospitals and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical E