Speaker: Dr. Reed Gelzer

Dr. Reed Gelzer’s 30+ year health care career includes 11 years in rural primary care practice, data quality and the legal record attributes of medical records, then 3 years as an EHR vendor. Thereafter, as Trustworthy EHR, LLC, he’s focused on clinical trustworthiness, data quality, and business record accuracy.

Professional Expertise:

1. EHR System reliability, data accuracy and records authenticity assurance
  • Risk assessments
  • Risk mitigation (clinical, medical-legal, revenue integrity, and regulatory)
  • Compliance associated with medical documentation
  • Counterfeit medical records
2. Clinician burden, usability, and adherence/compliance assurance
3. Release of Information, eDiscovery expert
4. Representative project and presentation clients
  • CMS Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (precursor to PQRS)
  • HHS-OIG and FBI’s HealthIT Fraud Units.
  • EHR Meaningful Use Incentives Appeals
  • Electronic Submission of Medical Documents project.
  • U.S. Navy Medicine (BUMED) Data Quality Office
  • Data Quality/Fraud Management project for the 2007 Office of the National Coordinator, cited in the December 2013 HHS OIG report on EHR non-compliance
  • NHCAA Annual Training Conferences (2015, 2016) and Schemes/Skills Conferences 2015, 2016
  • Prior Authorization for Powered Mobility Devices
5. Publications examples
  • Artigliere, Brouillard, Gelzer, Reich, Teppler, “Diagnosing and Treating Legal Ailments of the Electronic Health Record: Toward an Efficient and Trustworthy Process for Information Discovery and Release” in The Sedona Conference Journal, 2017
  • Drury, Gelzer, Trites, “EHR Systems: Testing the Limits of Digital Records’ Reliability and Trust” for the Ave Maria Law Review, 2014
  • Gelzer, Trites, How to Evaluate EHR Systems, AHIMA, Chicago, IL, 2008.
6. Volunteer Service
  • HL7 Standards EHR Records Management-Evidentiary Support Working Group
  • The Sedona Conference Working Group on Records Management and Discovery
  • Johns Hopkins University Health Sciences Informatics Workshop “Digital Records in Medicine and Law: Reliability and Authenticity” October 2014
  • Case Western Reserve University Law and Medicine Conference on EHRs and Patient Safety, April 2019