Health Information Management Paper

One of the key roles a health information management (HIM) professional holds is to serve as a guardian of patient health records. HIM professionals should be equipped with the knowledge to uphold the “care, custody, and control of the records” concerning legal action or an investigation (Kearney, 2014). Because the use of patient health records has switched from paper to electronic health records (EHR), it is necessary for HIM professionals to acquaint themselves with their institutions e-discovery processes and requirements. E-discovery refers to the “pretrial legal process used to describe the methods by which parties will obtain and view electronically stored information” (Brodnik, Rinehart-Thompson, & Reynolds, 2012).
All healthcare institutions