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Video Recording Raises Risk, Requires Policy Consideration
Video recording has been problematic in healthcare for decades, ever since the home video camera became common. With the proliferation of smartphones and remote video monitoring, hospitals and health systems are facing a new wave of questions and potential risks from video recording in patient care settings.
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Appeals Court Reverses Hospital’s Summary Judgment Due to Lack of Communication
This case highlights the importance of communication. In this case, a lack of communication was the material issue that prevented the defendant from adjudicating its liability.
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Contraceptive Injection Mix-Up Leads to Unwanted Birth, $10 Million Verdict
There are two principal ramifications arising from this decision that relate to a healthcare provider’s failure to adhere to the accepted standard of contraceptive care. First, a patient’s reason for seeking reproductive healthcare does not limit the scope of a negligent provider’s liability as a matter of state law.
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Nurse Practitioner Liability Increasing, Risk Managers Should Advise
The average total incurred amount of a nurse practitioner malpractice claim has risen sharply over five years. Risk managers can use recent data to help educate nurse practitioners and reduce their risk.
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Court Issues Ruling on False Claims Act
Healthcare providers received some news from the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, with a ruling that makes proving fraud or falsity under Anti-Kickback Statute more difficult.
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Artificial Intelligence Soon Could Transform the Field of Clinical Ethics
Using a tool that could introduce bias into a clinical situation or during an ethics consult is problematic. To address these and other issues, ethicists can and should be part of their facility's artificial intelligence oversight board.
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An Idea Whose Time Has Come: Racial Research in IP & Control
As the first step in an ambitious research agenda to address healthcare racial inequities and hospital infections, Shanina Knighton, PhD, RN, CIC, is starting at ground zero: “hygiene poverty.”
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Pandemic Puts Scientists, Medical Groups, Federal Agencies at Odds
Misinformation has been the enemy of truth during a pandemic that now has exceeded two years and taken a million lives, but there also has been genuine scientific disagreement that would seem inevitable given the many variables of the response.
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Endemic Monkeypox? Overall Decline, but Persistence Likely
Although the most likely scenario is that monkeypox cases will fall significantly in the next few months, transmission in the United States is “unlikely to be eliminated in the near future,” the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.
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CDC: Monkeypox Causing Severe Infections, Test Patients for HIV
A severe spectrum of monkeypox disease is appearing in patients with untreated human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, prompting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to urge HIV testing for patients with monkeypox.