THE ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS MINEFIELD:

NAVIGATING E-RISK FOR DENTISTS AND STAFF

Friday, November 7, 2014

8:45am - 11:45am (3 CE hrs)

Room 106-B

Social media, email, websites and electronic health records maximize practice efficiency and enhance marketing but create complex legal, regulatory and ethical pitfalls.

Learn the best practices to limit e-risk regarding patient privacy, professional liability, regulatory fines and other issues. 

Course Objectives:

• Manage social media to protect patient privacy and your practice's reputation.
• Identify and avoid ethical and legal risks in website marketing.
• Establish a patient email communication policy.
• Maximize benefits and minimize liability risks of electronic records.
• Protect the security and confidentiality of patient email communications including use of an effective informed consent.
• Manage practice website marketing, including ethical and legal obligations, and liability for misrepresentation and fraud.
• Recognize the risks of potential areas of liability with electronic dental records.

Recommended for…Everyone.

Chester J. Gary, DDS, JD is clinical assistant professor in the Department of Restorative Dentistry and course director of practice and risk management, University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine.  He is a practicing general dentist, licensed in New York, and an attorney-at-law, admitted in New York and Florida.  His law practice is concentrated on issues relevant to health care providers and represents dentist employees and employers in employment agreements, partners in partnership agreements and entity formation, buyers and sellers in practice sales and dentists personally in malpractice litigation.  Dr. Gary serves as a member of the New York State Dental Association (NYSDA) Attorney Panel and author and certified presenter of the New York State mandated Dental Jurisprudence and Ethics Course.  He serves as chair of the NYSDA District Professional Liability Claims Committee, editor of the Eighth District Dental Society Bulletin, reviewing editor of the New York State Dental Journal and Journal of the American Dental Association, president of the University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine Alumni Association, is a fellow of the American College of Dentists and American College of Legal Medicine, and a member of the New York and Florida Bar Associations.  Dr. Gary has published numerous articles and lectured extensively regarding dentistry, ethics and the law.

Dr. Gary is not associated with, employed by, nor consults for, any manufacturer, supplier, or retailer of dental instruments and materials.