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Overlook Medical Center in Summit, NJ, and its parent companies have agreed to pay the United States $9 million to settle allegations that they violated the False Claims Act, the Justice Department announced recently.
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Loss of chance, which is arguing what might have been if medical treatment or diagnosis had taken place earlier or been properly carried out, has been an available legal tactic for plaintiffs for decades; however, it was a relatively dormant legal theory in past years because courts limited how and when it could be used. Now it is becoming popular with plaintiffs attorneys again, and some defense attorneys say it is even more threatening now.
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Arguments over loss of chance often come down to a battle of the experts regarding how much difference the alleged malpractice made in the outcome, says Jacqueline M. Carolan, JD, partner with the law firm of Fox Rothschild in Philadelphia.
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Butler County Health Care Center (BCHCC) in David City, NE, has an enthusiastic team of master trainers who provide training and coaching in the Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety (TeamSTEPPS) program offered by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, which improves communication teamwork.
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These are excerpts from Considerations in the Disclosure of Serious Clinical Adverse Events (SCAEs), published recently by the American Health Lawyers Association and available at http://tinyurl.com/6wzvbsg:
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New guidelines available from the American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA) codify the many issues to discuss and decisions to make when a healthcare facility is considering disclosure of a serious clinical adverse event (SCAE).
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Malpractice claims dipped dramatically among Massachusetts physicians after they began using electronic health records (EHRs), according to new research, although its not clear whether the record-keeping was connected to the decline in claims.
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States such as Maine, New York, Texas, Florida, California, and Michigan are setting up health information exchanges (HIEs), which are computer networks connecting disparate medical practices to help doctors share patient files online. Other states soon will follow. But have you considered the potential risks associated with these new avenues of data sharing?
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News: A baby boy, born prematurely at 24 weeks, and weighing less than 2 pounds, was in the hospitals neonatal intensive care unit.
