CLM - 513 Legal and Ethical Issues in Health Care

The rapidly changing legal and ethical environment of health care affects all clinical laboratories. Laboratory managers must have a working knowledge of the legal system, including statutes, regulations, ethical issues and case law that affects them. This course provides a web-based approach to learning the essential legal and ethical issues, including application of the core principles of bioethics (autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence and justice) to medical and health care decisions affecting laboratory management. Learning units are organized to cover an introduction to the American legal system, health care system organization, relationship between the patient and the laboratory, health care information and privacy, civil tort liability of the laboratory, criminal liability and penalties and protection of intellectual property. Offered: fall. Retake Counts for Credit: No. Pass/No Pass Grading Allowed: No. Credit(s): 3