Information Sharing in Medical-Legal Partnerships: Foundational Concepts and Resources

Report / Fact Sheet
Written By NCMLP

Description

In order to effectively facilitate patient access to the legal services that can ultimately improve health, it is critical that healthcare practitioners and legal service providers be able to share information. Medical-legal partnerships are designed to encourage and enable this communication, but the information privacy legal framework may still present obstacles, both real and perceived, to effective information sharing. This brief discusses numerous opportunities to share information within the boundaries of that legal framework and describes different consent models that are possible.

 

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Authors

  • Jane Hyatt Thorpe, JD, Department of Health Policy and Management, Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University

  • Lara Cartwright-Smith, JD, MPH, Department of Health Policy and Management, Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University

  • Elizabeth Gray, JD, MHA, Department of Health Policy and Management, Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University

  • Marie Mongeon, MPH (Candidate), Department of Health Policy and Management, Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University

This brief was published by the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership.

 

Acknowledgment

This report is possible thanks to generous support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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