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A San Francisco insurer is offering health care providers what it says may be a first in underwriting a professional liability insurance policy specifically geared toward electronic-based and web-enabled transactions for health care operations.
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Falling Leaf is a program that identifies the patients at highest risk for falls and then aggressively works to monitor them and find the root cause of their falls. The program can dramatically reduce the number and severity of falls in any health care setting.
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With 2003 insurance quotes now in, New Jersey hospitals report an average annual medical malpractice insurance premium of nearly $1.9 million, a 71% increase over the average 2002 premium of $1.1 million.
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An elderly nursing home resident with a history of dementia fell and hit his head. Evidence of the incident was concealed by the nursing staff.
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Representatives of leading health care and consumer groups have endorsed 30 patient safety practices they say should be universally used in health care settings to reduce the risk of harm resulting from processes, systems, or environments of care.
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Increasingly, hospitals and other health care facilities are finding that they cant seriously reduce back injuries without using machines to do the lifting.
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After an initial round of laser surgery on her face, the patient consented to a second procedure, which was limited to an eyelid tuck and minor laser surgery to her chin. Despite the limitation, the ophthalmologist performed a full-face laser procedure, inadvertently resulting in second- and third-degree burns.
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PARIS Conference leaders initiated a new feature at the 14th European Paris Course on Revascularization (EuroPCR), held here in late May. Ten emerging companies were selected from among many contenders based on the innovative nature of their cardiovascular technologies and the clinical solutions they provide.
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Abbott Laboratories (Abbott Park, Illinois) entered into an asset purchase agreement for the coronary and peripheral interventional business line of the Jomed Group, a provider of minimally invasive vascular interventional devices, for EUR 60 million.
