Healthcare Risk Management – October 1, 2008
October 1, 2008
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Disruptive physicians threaten patient safety more than you may realize
This is the first of a two-part series on disruptive physicians. The next issue of Healthcare Risk Management will include more advice on how to address the problem. -
Time management crucial for your job
This is the first of a two-part series on time management for risk managers. This month, we look at the need to manage time effectively. Next month's Healthcare Risk Management will include more tips on time management for risk managers. -
Five tips for better time management
Sharmen Lane, a time management consultant and president of SharSpeaks LLC, with offices in New York and California, offers these tips for getting the most work done in the allotted time: -
Online postings may reveal more than they should
New research is revealing that blogs written by medical professionals may pose a threat to patient privacy when the authors of the blogs inadvertently reveal patient information. -
Some blogs include ads, patient photos
Although blatant violations of patient privacy are rare, supposedly anonymous medical bloggers who provide information about their location, subspecialty or other personal details may reveal their identity to blog readers. -
Celeb privacy breach bigger than reported
The privacy breach involving medical records of celebrities treated at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical Center was even bigger than what was reported months ago, according to a report from the state. -
Surgical errors cost $1.5 billion a year
Potentially preventable medical errors that occur during or after surgery may cost employers nearly $1.5 billion a year, according to new estimates by the Department of Health & Human Services' (HHS) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) in Rockville, MD. -
OIG says no problem with patient gift cards
If you want to give patients gift cards as a way to say "sorry" for that long wait in the emergency department or anything else that left them unhappy, feel free. The government says you're not violating any prohibitions on improper remuneration. -
Legal Review & Commentary: Hospital's failure to diagnose pulmonary embolism leads to $1 million settlement in New York
A man with a prior medical history of atrial fibrillation experienced shortness of breath and seizure-like activity two days after breaking his leg. Doctors ordered an ECG, chest X-ray, and CT scan, although there was a four-hour delay in obtaining the results of the CT scan.