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.
A federal court ruled recently that a commercial general liability policy must cover damages from a data breach.
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.
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.
