Healthcare Risk Management – January 1, 2026

Documentation Do’s and Don’ts: Know What Really Matters

“Document, document, document!” is the mantra of healthcare risk management. If it was not documented, did it really happen? If it was documented, was it documented properly? Knowing the right and wrong ways to document can make the difference when defending a malpractice claim or conducting a root cause investigation.

How to Investigate an Adverse Event

How you investigate adverse events can determine how valuable your efforts are in the end. Paying attention to best practices for these investigations can increase your chances of finding useful information that leads to meaningful change.

States Passing New Restrictions on Health Data Sharing

There is a rapidly expanding wave of state consumer-health-privacy laws reshaping how retailers, wellness brands, e-commerce companies, and digital platforms must handle data that can reveal or infer a person’s health status. These laws reach far beyond HIPAA and apply even when a business provides no medical services.

Nursing Claims More Severe, Defense More Expensive

Claims involving nursing care are becoming more severe, with treatment or care allegations remaining the top concern, according to the Nurse Professional Liability Claim Report, 5th edition from Nurses Service Organization (NSO) in Fort Washington, PA.