Patricia D. King

BIO

Patricia King has practiced Health Law for over thirty years. She began her career as an in-house attorney at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, and then practiced for three years with the firm of Wood Lucksinger & Epstein before returning to Northwestern. From 1995 through 2001, she was the General Counsel for Rockford Health System in Rockford, Illinois. Beginning in 2003, she was an in-house attorney at Swedish Covenant Hospital in Chicago, serving as General Counsel from 2015 through 2020.

Ms. King has represented health care clients in a broad range of transactional, regulatory and compliance matters. Her transactional work has included work on information technology license agreements, managed care, joint ventures, physician employment, health care financing and educational affiliations.  

She is especially interested in health information technology and has written extensively and given numerous presentations on HIT topics, including electronic health records, health information exchange and HIPAA privacy and security. 

PUBLICATIONS
AHLA HIPAA/HITECH Resource Guide, First Edition (editor), 2014

There’s an App for That!  Should Health Care Organizations Embrace the Mobile Revolution?, AHLA Connections, Vol. 18, Issue 5, May 2014

ACOs Create Need to Capture, Share Quality and Utilization Data, American Health Lawyers Association HIT News, February 2011

New Requirements for Tax-Exempt Hospitals under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, American Health Lawyers Association, Healthcare Reform Law Resource Guide (2011)

PRESENTATIONS
Oklahoma Telemedicine Conference, Telehealth Transition: Opportunity to Value Creation, “Protecting Privacy, Security and Patient Safety in mHealth”, October 16, 2014

University Healthsystems Consortium, 2014 UHC Joint Council Meeting, Maximizing Quality and Safety: Minimizing Risk, “Electronic Health Record Audits”, May 7, 2014 and “EHRs and Patient Safety: Addressing Risks That Can Arise From Improper Design, Incorrect Use and Problems Associated with Electronic Health Records”, May 8, 2014

American Health Lawyers Association, Current HIT Challenges: mHealth, Big Data, and HIPAA Compliance, “First, Do No Harm: Minimizing HIT-Associated Hazards”, with M. Kathleen Kenyon, March 28, 2014

American Health Lawyers Association, 2013 In-House Counsel Program, “So Our Business Associate Just Reported a Data Breach: Now What?” with Patricia Markus, June 30, 2013

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