Electronic Medical Records - Expert Witness Services

Assisting attorneys navigate the modern electronic medical records. Unleash the power for your client.

My goal is to provide professional expert services to attorneys working with healthcare medical legal cases regarding audit trails and related electronic medical record systems issues.

My ability to serve attorneys derives from over thirty years of experience with manual and automated access logs and audit trails starting in the 1990’s. At least 36 times I have been involved in requests for logs while employed by hospital or medical groups. These included child rape, child pregnancies, possible criminal behavior by doctors, and other compliance matters.

In at least 24 of those I was directly involved in the development and production of the access log, activity log or audit trail.

I have had project responsibility to implement EMR systems with reporting functionality including audit trail/access logs at health systems and medical groups. For example, at the University of Washington I was directly involved with the data analytics and reporting department experts to oversee the development and configuration of the reporting including audit trail / access log. In a recent position I had to secure the records and logs of providers who may have committed unethical or criminal behaviors.

As part of legal cases I have examined access logs or audit trails for multiple cases. What I have observed is a range of quality in the production of the data and am able to opine on issues related to poor quality medical records.