In this issue:

- Health Care Decisions — Who Decides?

- Medical Software Licensing — Tips from the Trenches

- An Ounce of Prevention — The Importance of Periodic Corporate Audits

- ACA

- Excerpt from Health Care Decisions—Who Decides?

Like most states, North Carolina recognizes a person’s fundamental right to make his or her own health care decisions. Sometimes, however, it is not possible for a patient to make or communicate a health care decision. A patient may be unconscious, comatose, or otherwise incapable of making or communicating a health care decision. In these situations, North Carolina law has clarified who can consent to medical treatment for those patients who cannot make or communicate their own decisions.