Healthcare Risk Management: Online

Healthcare Risk Management is written about legal and patient safety issues for healthcare risk managers, lawyers, physicians, and other clinicians and managers. With verdicts growing higher and malpractice premiums increasing, this venerable newsletter, staffed with several national risk management leaders, helps you avoid lawsuits at your facility.

In addition to the concise monthly newsletter, you’ll receive the four-page Legal Review & Commentary, a monthly supplement with legal analysis of two recent cases involving hospitals and physicians. You’ll also receive a quarterly HIPAA Regulatory Alert so you can stay in compliance. Click here to see all recently published issues/articles from Healthcare Risk Management.

Healthcare Risk Management Covers:

• Specific tips for improving patient safety
• Recent developments in patient confidentiality and privacy
• Advice on how to conduct a root-cause analysis
• Tips on how to reduce incidents such as patient falls
• Information on what must be included in informed consent
• And much more...

Click here to see all recently published issues/articles from Healthcare Risk Management.

Benefits of Subscribing to Healthcare Risk Management Include:

• 12 Monthly Issues
• 18 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^™ annually
• 18 ANCC contact hours annually
• Monthly Legal Review and Commentary supplement
• Free Resources and Sources’ Contact Information Listed

Awards:

• 2015, Specialized Information Publishers Association (SIPA), first place, Best Health Care/Nutrition/Fitness or Analytical Reporting
• Three-time winner of Best Analytical or Interpretive Reporting, from SIPA
• Two-time winner of Sigma Delta Chi award for excellence in journalism, from Society of Professional Journalists
• Two-time Harrison L. Rogers Jr., MD, Award of Excellence in Medical Journalism
• Jesse H. Neal Award finalist from the Association of Business Information and Media companies

Faculty:

Physician Reviewer:

Arnold Mackles, MD, MBA, LHRM
President
Innovative Healthcare Compliance Group
Palm Beach Gardens, FL

Nurse Planner:

Kay Ball, PhD, RN, CNOR, CMLSO, FAAN
Consultant/Educator
Adjunct Professor, Nursing
Otterbein University
Westerville, OH

Editorial Advisory Board:

Leilani Kicklighter, RN, ARM, MBA, CPHRM, LHRM
Patient Safety & Risk Management Consultant
The Kicklighter Group
Tamarac, FL

John C. Metcalfe, JD, FASHRM,
J.C. Metcalfe & Associates
Los Alamitos, CA

William J. Naber, MD, JD, CHC
Medical Director, UR/CM/CDI
Medical Center & West Chester Hospital
Physician Liaison
UC Physicians Compliance Department,
Associate Professor
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

Grena Porto, RN, ARM, CPHRM
Vice President, Risk Management
ESIS ProCLaim Practice Leader, HealthCare
ESIS Health, Safety and Environmental
Hockessin, DE

R. Stephen Trosty, JD, MHA, CPHRM, ARM
Risk Management Consultant, Patient Safety Consultant
Haslett, MI

M. Michael Zuckerman, JD, MBA
Assistant Professor, Academic Director, Master of Science
Risk Management & Insurance
Department of Risk, Insurance & Healthcare Management
Fox School of Business and Management
Temple University
Philadelphia

Objectives:

• Describe the legal, clinical, financial, and managerial issues pertinent to risk management.
• Explain the effect of risk management issues on patients, physicians, nurses, legal counsel, and management.
• Identify solutions to risk management problems in healthcare for hospital personnel to use in overcoming the challenges they encounter in daily practice.

Target Audience:

This education activity is intended for healthcare risk managers, healthcare lawyers, physicians, and other managers and clinicians who work in hospitals and other healthcare settings.

Accreditation and Credit Designation:

In support of improving patient care, Relias LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Relias LLC designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (18 per year). Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

1.5 ANCC contact hours will be awarded to participants who meet the criteria for successful completion (18 per year).

Expiration:

This activity in effect for 36 months after the date of publication.

Instructions For Participation:

Physicians and nurses participate in this CME/CE activity by reading the issues, using the provided references for further research and studying the questions at the end of each issue. Participants will then be directed to a website, where they will complete an online assessment to show what they've learned. They must score 100 on the assessment in order to complete the activity, but they are allowed to answer the questions multiple times if needed. After they have successfully completed the assessment and an evaluation, they will receive their credit letter.