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Item The ethics of pandemic influenza planning in Indiana: legal perspectives(2008-08-27T18:08:18Z) Kinney, Eleanor D.Item Implementing best practices: Converting good ethics into good law(2008-07-23T20:50:43Z) Orentlicher, DavidItem Information Governance 101(2017-06-21) Hook, Sara AnneThis informative and engaging session will cover the emerging field of Information Governance (IG) and why it is important for law firms and their clients. Information governance (IG) has been defined as the set of multi-disciplinary structures, policies, procedures, processes and controls implemented to manage information at an enterprise level, supporting an organization's immediate and future regulatory, legal, risk, environmental and operational requirements. Information governance is the first stage of an electronic discovery process, per the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM), and thus clients whose information/data is properly organized will be better prepared for e-discovery, which is particularly important with the shortened timelines under the amended Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Moreover, information governance recognizes that information has a lifecycle and thus information governance plans typically include the preparation of a retention and destruction policies and procedures. Not only can law firms increase their efficiency and reduce costs and risks by using appropriate information governance strategies, this can also be a practice builder because many clients are woefully deficient in their approaches to information governance. The prediction is that the need for information governance professionals will increase in the future as organizations of all types recognize their information as a strategic asset that needs to be managed properly and yet there are not enough professionals with IG expertise available.Item The legal and ethical implications of the Indiana surrogate decision making impact on physicians and patient care in Indiana hospitals(2015) Comer, Amber R.; Silverman, Ross David; Torke, Alexia Mary; Eberl, Jason; Gaffney, Margaret M.; Stone, Cynthia L.Background: When a patient is incapacitated and unable to make health care decisions, a surrogate decision maker must be designated to make decisions about the patient’s care in his or her place. Studies show that fewer than 20% of patients in hospitals present with a designated health care representative form. Therefore, the overwhelming majority of surrogates in hospitals are identified via default state statutes. Little is known about the implications of state default surrogate decision making statutes on physicians and patient care in clinical practice. Methods: An evaluation of state surrogate decision making statutes was conducted in order to determine variability among state laws. Additionally, a statewide, quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional survey of a random sample of 405 physicians working in Indiana hospitals was conducted to determine: 1) physicians’ knowledge of Indiana’s surrogate decision making law; 2) physicians’ approaches to hypothetical cases they might encounter in hospital practice; and 3) any delay in patient care physicians experience as a result of state surrogate decision making laws. Results: There is very little consistency among states regarding who may serve as a surrogate decision maker. In Indiana, less than half of the surveyed physicians (47.90%) were able to correctly identify legally allowable surrogates. When presented with clinica vignettes, nearly all physicians (84.90%) report that they would allow a grandchild to act as a surrogate decision maker, even though grandchildren are not legal surrogates under the law. Additionally, more than half of physicians (53.8%) experienced a delay in patient care due to the inability to identify a legal surrogate. Conclusions: The narrow construction of state laws can leave patients in situations where they either have no qualified surrogate under the law or where they have multiple surrogates. If there are multiple surrogates with competing interests a consensus may not be reached on the patient’s medical care. These situations result in a delay of patient care. The results of this study show that the Indiana Surrogate Decision Making law is flawed as it does not reflect the composition of Indiana families and leads to delays in patient care.Item A proposal for comprehensive biobank research laws to promote translational medicine in Indiana(Indiana University, 2008) Girod, Jennifer; Drabiak, KatherineItem Squaring State Child Vaccine Policy With Individual Rights Under the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act: Questions Raised in California(Sage, 2017-09) Silverman, Ross D.; Hensel, Wendy F.; Health Policy and Management, School of Public HealthItem The State of E-Discovery as Social Media Goes Mobile(2015-09-18) Faklaris, Cori; Hook, Sara AnneElectronic discovery (e-discovery) is something that impacts everyone, whether they know if or not, because it deals with the proper collection, preservation, analysis and production of evidence in digital form. This presentation will concentrate on civil cases, but e-discovery is also important in criminal cases as well as other types of audits and investigations. For example, see Clark v. State, 915 N.E.2d 126 (2009) – an Indiana Supreme Court case. Electronic discovery is an especially important issue for anyone in the Informatics, Media Arts and IT industries.