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Providers are increasingly faced with the dilemma of whether to ban all personal electronic devices such as iPads and BlackBerrys in patient care areas or allow clinicians to use them.
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Limiting access to hospital units is one strategy for reducing the risk of abductions and other threats to children, notes Dan Yaross, director of security at Nationwide Childrens Hospital in Cincinnati.
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With a tough economy and mounting pressures on healthcare providers, more hospitals are going bare and foregoing medical malpractice insurance coverage in the hopes that they can cover any judgment on their own.
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The United States has entered into a settlement agreement with Pacific Health Corp. (PHC) and related entities in which they agreed to pay the government and the state of California $16.5 million for allegedly engaging in an illegal kickback scheme in Los Angeles, the Justice Department announced recently.
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Elective deliveries before 39 weeks, often performed as a convenience to the patient or the physician, have long been known to threaten patient safety and risk hospital liability. One hospital is reporting great success with a checklist and firm refusal to permit early deliveries without a good reason.
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Infant abduction is a constant threat to hospitals with obstetrics units, and many facilities have implemented sophisticated technology in recent years to lower that risk. The strengths of the technology were illustrated in one recent abduction, but another revealed a process failure that allowed a baby to be taken for five hours.
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Replacing the American medical liability system with a no-fault patients compensation system would create at least $2.6 trillion in savings over 10 years, according to a new study by the German economics firm BioScience Valuation in Grainau.
