Healthcare Docket: Help Wanted — Doctor Expert Witnesses
Major malpractice verdicts have spiked in recent years.
Practice Risk Assessment: Do You Know What Your Patients Are Taking?
By revisiting practice workflows to implement more strategic habits of communication and documentation, clinicians can promote positive outcomes and mitigate practice liability risks at a time when patients maybe accessing care from myriad sources, some online.
At ViVE 2024, Panelists Share Prior Authorization Progress and Frustration in Payer Insights Program
At the Payer Insights sessions on Day 1 of ViVE 2024, a panel on prior authorization offered compelling insights from speakers who shared the positive developments in this area after years of mounting frustration. Speakers also shared challenges as they work with providers to figure out how policy developments and technology will work in practice.
Some hospitals taking novel approach to dealing with medical errors: Apologizing
Programs to circumvent litigation by offering prompt disclosure, apology and compensation for mistakes as an alternative to malpractice suits are becoming more popular
Where’s this malpractice crisis Ryan and Price are talking about?
Doctors are paying less for malpractice insurance than they did in 2001 — without any inflation adjustment, according to the Doctors Company, one of the nation’s largest malpractice insurers.
Does your robot doctor carry enough malpractice insurance?
A new report cataloging over 10,000 incident reports to the FDA found that robot surgeons were involved in 144 patient deaths and 1,391 patient injuries.
Malpractice suit shows power of the smartphone to hold providers accountable
A Virginia jury last week slapped an anesthesiologist with a $500,000 fine for defamation and medical malpractice for insulting a sedated patient during a colonoscopy, then falsifying the medical record.
When Investment Rhymes with Canada
Canada has a proud history of achievement in the areas of science and technology, and the field of biomanufacturing and life sciences is no exception.
JAMA examines 7 ideas for lowering the risk of medical lawsuits – without tort reform
The threat of being sued for medical malpractice looms over most physicians – but thus far, tort reform’s been failing on the federal level. A new free online JAMA article outlines the current medical liability climate, and ways that it can be amended. The piece, titled “The Medical Liability Climate and Prospects for Reform,” contained a pretty […]
Study of 4,215 orders shows $226 spent per patient on unnecessary care
Doctors that are afraid of legal backlash are much more likely to order unnecessary tests and hospitalization, according to a new study published this week in JAMA Internal Medicine. Defensive medicine – a euphemistic term for this practice – is estimated to cost the U.S. more than $46 billion each year. Almost a third of the orders were […]