Patient IT Records Increasing Malpractice Risks?
Dec 14, 2011
A report from the Institute of Medicine recommends tighter control and review of all systems using the electronic medical record (EMR). The U.S. Department of Health Human Services is expected to rele...
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Late Test Results Opens Door for Malpractice
Dec 14, 2011
A physician orders a test, the patient is tested, the lab results come back and then nothing happens. The results are filed in the patients chart and not communicated to the doctor in time to make a cr...
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Quality Incentives of ACOs Won’t Result in Lower Cost and Better Care Says Study
Nov 23, 2011
CMSs new guidelines for the Accountable Care Organization model of care to cut costs and improve patient outcomes may be in trouble before it gets off the ground.
Physicians groups call if a pay-for-pe...
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CMS’s Final Rule Cuts Medicare Payments Starting January
Nov 13, 2011
Claiming that only a stop-gap reduction measure initiated by Congress would solve the disparity in service cost and reimbursement allowance, even Dr. Donald Berwick, the CMS Administrator, doesnt belie...
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EMRs, Discovery and New Rules of Record Preservation
Oct 17, 2011
In the course of litigation, patient records, whether hard copies or electronic records, become discoverable information for view and use by plaintiffs attorneys. Federal Rule 26 states that the electr...
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Unpreventable Falls and Insurance Burden
Oct 17, 2011
The Journal of American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons recently reported that as much as 20 percent of falls experienced by in-patients were not the fault of the hospital nor its staff.
The normal pre...
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