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States Passing New Restrictions on Health Data Sharing
There is a rapidly expanding wave of state consumer-health-privacy laws reshaping how retailers, wellness brands, e-commerce companies, and digital platforms must handle data that can reveal or infer a person’s health status. These laws reach far beyond HIPAA and apply even when a business provides no medical services.
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How to Investigate an Adverse Event
How you investigate adverse events can determine how valuable your efforts are in the end. Paying attention to best practices for these investigations can increase your chances of finding useful information that leads to meaningful change.
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Documentation Do’s and Don’ts: Know What Really Matters
“Document, document, document!” is the mantra of healthcare risk management. If it was not documented, did it really happen? If it was documented, was it documented properly? Knowing the right and wrong ways to document can make the difference when defending a malpractice claim or conducting a root cause investigation.
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$17.1M Awarded to Family of Deceased Infant
In a verdict underscoring both the effects of obstetrical malpractice and the breadth of damages Illinois juries may award in wrongful death cases, a Macon County jury has returned a $17.1 million judgment in favor of a family whose infant son died nine months after a traumatic delivery.
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Washington Court Upholds $13M Malpractice Verdict Against Cosmetic Surgeon
A Washington appeals court has upheld a $13 million jury verdict against a plastic surgeon accused of botched cosmetic procedures and deceptive business practices, marking one of the state’s more notable malpractice rulings in recent years. The panel rejected the defense’s claims that improper evidence tainted the trial, instead finding that the outcome was supported by substantial evidence and that no reversible error occurred.
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Know the Basics of Medical Malpractice Insurance
Professional liability insurance is a necessity in the healthcare field, but it often is not fully understood by those who need it the most.
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Overuse of Travel Nurses Threatens Patient Safety
New research suggests that relying excessively on travel nurses or nurses working overtime may threaten patient safety. Researchers at the George Washington University and Premier health system looked at this issue, which has received little attention in the past.
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Telehealth Continues to Pose Liability, Regulatory Concerns
The use of telehealth boomed during the pandemic and continues to be a popular option for both patients and providers, but legal risks continue.
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Hospitals Cutting Infection Control Staff, Creating Patient Safety Risks
The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology and The Leapfrog Group have joined to express concern about how hospitals are cutting infection control resources and the dire effects that may have on patient safety.
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Are Rules Really Meant to Be Broken?
Risk managers spend a lot of time and effort promoting policies and procedures meant to improve patient safety and protect the organization from liability. But is there ever a time to condone breaking those rules?