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Hospitals are adopting cyber liability policies in growing numbers, but other healthcare organizations are lagging behind, says Jay Sheehan, JD, senior vice president of Preferred Advantage in Hartford, CT, a division of national insurance provider Preferred Concepts.
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Physicians, hospitals, dentists, therapists, and a host of other healthcare providers paid about $31 billion in medical malpractice premiums in 2011, which is a new record, according to a study released recently by Patients for Fair Compensation, a group based in Alpharetta, GA, that seeks to educate the public about the costs of defensive medicine.
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Two recent legal decisions signal a change in the way courts will view arbitration provisions, says Elliot Zemel, JD, an associate at the law firm of Fenton Nelson in Los Angeles.
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News: A 34-year-old woman, then 36 weeks pregnant, presented to Pottstown Memorial Medical Center in Philadelphia in August 2008 with signs of placental abruption. Fetal monitoring was inconclusive. A nurse and the obstetrician performed a bedside ultrasound examination and were unable to detect a fetal heartbeat. The obstetrician sought an ultrasound technician's confirmation of his diagnosis of fetal death; however, it took 75 minutes for the ultrasound technician to arrive.
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Six health care organizations have come together with one strong message: Be careful in your design of wellness incentives so that they don't treat some employees unfairly or restrict access to health insurance.
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Health care workers who received the acellular pertussis vaccine as children may have little immunity as adults, a new study suggests.
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Sharps injuries from suture needles aren't necessarily happening in the operating room. As Sinai Health System in Chicago discovered, they may occur during the insertion of central lines or other procedures outside the OR. And they can be prevented.
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Your hospital may be causing your workers pain and not just for the reasons you think. Job stress, including harassment from coworkers or unsupportive supervisors, contributes to musculoskeletal pain and injury and a host of other problems, according to a growing body of research.
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In recent years, there has been a push for hospitals to receive organs from donors who are not technically brain dead.
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In a commentary on the biosecurity controversy surrounding publication of bird flu research details, a bioethicist and a vaccine expert at Johns Hopkins reaffirm that "all scientists have an affirmative ethical obligation to avoid contributing to the advancement of biowarfare and bioterrorism," but that there are not sufficient structures in place to evaluate potential societal risks.
