Angela Russell (Partner-Baltimore) will join a panel on "Telepsychiatry Standards & Practices: Understanding and Mitigating the Risks" for an HB Litigation Conference webinar to be held July 28 2020, at 2:00 p.m. EDT. Telemedicine has emerged as an important component for health care in general and psychiatric medicine specifically during the pandemic. Angela and the panel will discuss how the new health care telemedicine experience may evolve as a result of the pandemic impact. Topics include ensuring confidentiality in a telemedicine practice; the telepsychiatric consent form; the emerging standard of care for telemedicine; case law addressing telemedicine or telepsychiatry; how the HIPAA regulations and HITECH privacy laws have been relaxed during the pandemic; the preferred technical platforms and ones to be avoided.

More information and registration (WilsonElserpass) are available on the event website.