Boon Theng graduated from the National University of Singapore Law Faculty in 1990 and subsequently completed her Masters in Arts Degree in Medical Ethics & Law from the University of London (King’s College Centre for Medical Law and Ethics).
She has been in practice for over 20 years and has a special interest in healthcare law and ethics, advising various clients within the healthcare industry.
She began her legal career in one of the largest law firms of the day. In 2004, she started Legal Clinic LLC intending it to be a small firm where she would focus on her core areas of practice in medical law and ethics.
Synopsis - ERM 2
Electronic medical records offer the promise of a way to minimize medical mistakes, increase efficiency and improve care. It can facilitate speedy retrieval of records, provide more legible notes, incorporate safety alerts and other mechanisms, and improve the overall speed of healthcare delivery. However, the use of electronic medical records can also increase the burden on healthcare providers, and lead to new medico-legal risks for the institution and its users Ms Kuah Boon Theng will talk about these risks, and how to avoid turning the promise of this new technology into a bane and burden for healthcare providers.
Synopsis - ERM 3 (Panel Discussion)
Today, healthcare and related services are highly IT-enabled. Administrative and operations staff as well as healthcare providers use various IT systems to schedule appointments and refer patients for management across care settings; order tests, medication and procedures; access patients’ medical records and access test results to facilitate diagnosis and decide on appropriate treatment regimes. While we have in place measures to protect patient information confidentiality and prevent unauthorised access for patient personal data, the rising trend in cyber penetration faced by healthcare institutions that led to loss of patient personal data / information has heightened concerns over IT and cyber security breaches in particular.
Join our distinguished Panel of subject experts and practitioners in cyber security, medical and nursing informatics as well as legal to share on what keeps them awake at night in the realm of data and information security for healthcare organisations. They will also be discussing the challenges and issues that should be addressed as they grapple with the need to secure and safeguard confidential and sensitive patient personal data and the need to provide easy and fast access to the required information for clinicians and operations staff alike in providing direct care and related support services to assure patient safety and a good experience for our patients and their family members as well as operational efficacy to raise overall productivity for the organisation.