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Gainsharing agreements are becoming increasingly popular as hospitals and other health care organizations look for ways to cut costs and improve profitability.
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In the midst of a contested divorce proceeding, the plaintiff-husband's medical records were released by a treating physician who employed the defendant-wife.
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The following is a sample section of a policy and procedure for disclosure documentation offered by Fay Rozovsky, JD, MPH, president of the Rozovsky Group, a risk management firm in Bloomfield, CT.
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Many risk managers who think they are conducting a root-cause analysis (RCA) really aren't, says Robert Latino, vice president of The Reliability Center, a risk management consulting firm in Hopewell, VA.
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Robert Latino, vice president of The Reliability Center, a risk management consulting firm in Hopewell, VA, recommends a tool developed by his firm calls the "logic tree" for investigating chronic problems or adverse events.
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A concerted effort to standardize the way central lines are introduced has reduced infections by 50% and resulted in nearly perfect adherence to evidence-based practices at 10 hospitals in the Cincinnati area.
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An adult patient, who had been diagnosed with diabetes at age 11, was admitted for surgery to repair his retina due to injuries related to diabetic retinopathy.
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The Duke University Health System in Durham, NC, has responded to patients' efforts to gain more information about how two hospitals mistakenly washed surgical instruments in used hydraulic fluid instead of detergent and failed to notice the mix-up for weeks. Approximately 3,800 patients were exposed to the contaminated instruments during surgery.
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A Pennsylvania hospital reports that it is seeing tremendous results from a computerized order entry system (CPOE), with an 85.7% decrease in improper doses and a 76.8% decrease in medication omissions.
