Experts participating in the American Bar Association 22nd Annual Emerging Issues in Healthcare Law Conference this week will tackle a variety of topics, including the future of federal and state healthcare programs, medical-legal partnerships as well as prioritizing diversity and inclusion in the industry.
Bethany Hamilton, co-director of the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership at the Department of Health Policy and Management, Milken Institute School of Public Health at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C., will give the keynote address on Tuesday at 10 a.m. CT.
Program highlights include:
Monday 12:15-1:15 p.m.
"Disruption in the Healthcare Industry" - Panelists will discuss digital health, artificial intelligence, new care models and other developments from a practical, on-the-ground perspective.
Tuesday, 11:15-12:15 p.m.
• "Future of State Medicaid Programs" - Panelists will discuss innovative designs and future expectations for this key program within the U.S. health care delivery system.
Tuesday, 1:25-2:10 p.m.
• "The Expanding Role of Nurse Practitioners: Challenges, Patient Care Impacts and COVID-19" - This session will examine the reasons for changes in nurse practitioner scope of practice and supervision regulations, national trends relating to physician oversight of NPs, and the resulting impact on patient care. Participants also will review changes to NP scope of practice in light of COVID-19.
Wednesday, 10:45-11:45 a.m.
"Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccines: Public Health, Personal Autonomy and the Law" - This session will provide an overview of the legal basis for vaccination requirements at the federal, state and/or local levels, including the basis/need to include exemptions. The panel will consider the possibility of a compulsory COVID-19 vaccination.
Thursday, 10-11 a.m.
"Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Discrimination in Healthcare" - A panel will present a review and evaluation of the developing law in discrimination regarding health care, with a focus on how risks and obligations are defined for big data and artificial intelligence.
Thursday, 11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
"Theories and Assessment of Harm in Data Privacy and Data Breach Class Actions" - This session will review potential theories of harm as well as economic approaches and challenges to valuing, in class action settings, alleged unconsented use or misappropriation of health and other private data generated during this health care crisis.
Thursday, 12:30-1:30 p.m.
"The Evolving Telehealth Landscape: 2020 and Beyond" - This panel will examine the current regulatory framework and explain how to best approach compliance issues. In addition, it will examine current legislative efforts to make permanent certain of the flexibilities allowed due to COVID-19 and will also discuss potential bases for enforcement actions as a result of the possible misuse of telehealth.
Friday, 12:10-12:55 p.m.
"Ethics: Medical-Legal Partnership & COVID-19: Law as Health Care in a Pandemic" - Massive resources were deployed toward the modification of laws and policies outside the traditional boundaries of health law in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Medical-legal partnerships (MLP), which embed attorneys into the delivery of health care to remediate health-harming legal needs, were uniquely positioned to incorporate competency in the ever-evolving landscape of "non-health" health law into the delivery of a health care system that also was rapidly adapting to the realities of the pandemic. In this session, participants will explore what MLP is as well as lessons learned when legal practitioners of this area of health law join health care practitioners in addressing the impact of COVID on health care and health disparities.
To register or for more information, visit americanbar.org.
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