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Attorneys see risk managers gaining prominence
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Hospital and physicians indicted in kickback case
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LRC: Botched removal of pacing wires leads to verdict of $5.5 million
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A federal court ruled recently that a commercial general liability policy must cover damages from a data breach.
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Risk managers have moved from reactive to proactive over decades
The role of the risk manager has changed dramatically over the past 35 years. Originally responsible primarily for reacting to liabilities, risk managers now take a more proactive and extensive leadership position. -
Man claims hospital repeatedly forced cavity search
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Hospital Employee Health - Full January 2014 Issue in PDF
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Checklist improves crisis management
Surgical crisis simulations in three hospitals found that using a checklist rather than relying on memory alone leads to better adherence to critical processes of care. -
What makes for good care coordination?
Ask a doctor if she thinks her hospital does a good job at care coordination or an administrator or board member and shed probably say yes. She might admit to room for improvement, but in all likelihood, she would think she and her peers do a good job taking care of patients in and out of the acute care setting. -
How do you promote quality when quality doesn’t pay?
When a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reported in April that surgeries with complications lead to higher reimbursement from payers1 public and private alike the mainstream press jumped on it with headlines that seemed to implicate the medical profession with some sort of scam: By not doing the best job, they could make more money.