The status quo for medical malpractice insurance is no longer good enough. While we must always prioritize the need for accountability when it comes to medical malpractice, we must also consider how challenges like increased premiums, rising costs and new risks are impacting providers and consequentially patients.
Major malpractice verdicts have spiked in recent years.
By reducing administrative burden and redesigning workflows around human needs, it creates space for what matters most: connection between clinicians and patients.
By revisiting practice workflows to implement more strategic habits of communication and documentation, clinicians can promote positive outcomes and mitigate practice liability risks at a time when patients maybe accessing care from myriad sources, some online.
Programs to circumvent litigation by offering prompt disclosure, apology and compensation for mistakes as an alternative to malpractice suits are becoming more popular
Doctors are paying less for malpractice insurance than they did in 2001 — without any inflation adjustment, according to the Doctors Company, one of the nation’s largest malpractice insurers.
A new report cataloging over 10,000 incident reports to the FDA found that robot surgeons were involved in 144 patient deaths and 1,391 patient injuries.
A Virginia jury last week slapped an anesthesiologist with a $500,000 fine for defamation and medical malpractice for insulting a sedated patient during a colonoscopy, then falsifying the medical record.
The threat of being sued for medical malpractice looms over most physicians – but thus far, tort reform’s been failing on the federal level. A new free online JAMA article outlines the current medical liability climate, and ways that it can be amended. The piece, titled “The Medical Liability Climate and Prospects for Reform,” contained a pretty […]
Doctors that are afraid of legal backlash are much more likely to order unnecessary tests and hospitalization, according to a new study published this week in JAMA Internal Medicine. Defensive medicine – a euphemistic term for this practice – is estimated to cost the U.S. more than $46 billion each year. Almost a third of the orders were […]