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Risk managers should train clinicians to refer police requests to the risk
manager and legal counselor for legal assessment and to avoid automatically complying with requests.
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A federal court ruled recently that a commercial general liability policy must cover damages from a data breach.
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The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) are evaluating a new measurement tool that they hope will be a better gauge of risk factors and focus on improving outcomes for heart disease and diabetes patients.
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Malpractice information from the National Practitioner Data Bank over 25 years has showed that most mistakes come from diagnostic errors, not surgical mistakes or medication errors, according to a study published in the British Medical Journals Quality and Safety journal1.
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Late in April, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its proposed update to policies and payments for inpatient care in fiscal year 2014.
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The National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) and the Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank (HIPDB) announced a merger in April that became effective last month.
