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States Moving to Throw Out Med/Mal Caps
The Florida Supreme Court ruled recently that caps placed on medical malpractice damages in personal injury cases are unconstitutional.
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OCR Provides Checklist, Advice on Cyberattacks
The HHS Office for Civil Rights is offering guidance on when a cyberattack constitutes a HIPAA breach and must be reported.
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Medical Staff Management Can Be Minefield
Dealing with problematic physicians requires wading into a tangle of strict legal requirements on how a doctor can be investigated, and there are ample opportunities for missteps.
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Lab Result Phone Alerts Mean Faster Discharge
Critical lab results can be delivered sooner and patients can be discharged more quickly by delivering lab results immediately to physicians’ smartphones, according to recent research.
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Failed Lab Result Deliveries Result in Payouts
Data from The Doctors Company illustrate malpractice cases from 2011 to 2016 in which a failure or delaying in reporting findings of lab results was a contributing factor.
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Ensure Lab Results Don’t Go Overlooked
Errors related to poor handling of lab results are a well-known patient safety risk, but risk managers should not assume their physicians and staff follow the proper policies and procedures to avoid liability.
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Stanford Approach Helps Avoid Huge Verdict
This case study shows the use of the Decision Analysis Reserve and Trial Strategy tool, a structured reserve-setting process created by The Risk Authority Stanford.
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Use Algorithm to Determine Better Med/Mal Reserves
Setting case reserves for medical malpractice cases is a challenge that requires a mixture of data, experience, wisdom, and a good bit of guesswork. The accuracy of that calculation often is attributed to the risk manager, and that can be detrimental when reality doesn’t match the prediction.
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Health System Included PHI in Press Release, OCR Says
Memorial Hermann Health System has agreed to pay $2.4 million to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and adopt a corrective action plan to settle potential HIPAA violations related to claims it included a patient’s protected health information in a press release.
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Paper Calls for More Transparency of Industry-sponsored Clinical Trials
A recent paper offers consensus recommendations and examples of best practices from the published clinical trial literature to help authors and trial sponsors communicate drug adverse events in a more informative and clinically meaningful manner.