Coronavirus and Regulation
Thomas A. Firey andPeter Van DorenCrises often illuminate “inefficient” public policies—ones with costs that outweigh their benefits. Society can tolerate (and may not even notice) them in ordinary times, allowing the policies to continue and protect and enrich special interests. But in crises, their costs become less tolerable.Because of the coronavirus, the U.S. economy is experiencing simultaneous negative shocks todemand andsupply. The demand shock is broadly understood: “social distancing” is causing people to avoid (and governments to close or curtail) mass transit, restaurants, personal services, and other...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 20, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas A. Firey, Peter Van Doren Source Type: blogs
What Malpractice Liabilities Do Healthcare AI Users Face?
With many providers adopting AI technology, it’s likely that some of them will face medical malpractice suits blaming the AI for patient harm. While it’s still unclear how to tackle this problem, it’s clear that healthcare organizations will have to address it soon. According to Saurabh Jah, who wrote a piece on this subject for […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 16, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Anne Zieger Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System FDA Healthcare AI Healthcare AI Liability Hospital AI Medical Malpractice Medical Practice Sa Source Type: blogs
Medical error disclosure programs: Old habits die hard
A radical change is emerging from within our health care system: Rather than deny or defend medical errors, some hospitals are acknowledging them upfront. This enlightened response has been gaining ground since 2001 when the University of Michigan Hospital introduced one of the first medical error disclosure programs: the Michigan Model. Hospitals that adopt the […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 8, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/gail-handley" rel="tag" > Gail Handley < /a > < /span > Tags: Patient Hospital-Based Medicine Malpractice Source Type: blogs
Failed Humanitarian Interventions and the “Good Intentions” Dodge
Ted Galen CarpenterIn a newNational Interest Online article,I discuss how advocates of “humanitarian” military interventions resort to a variety of excuses to evade responsibility once their crusades go awry.One especially maddening deflection of responsibility is when proponents insist that their intentions were good, and that the missions should be judged according to that standard.Even Barack Obama seemed to recognize the insufficiency of that defense when he first met Samantha Power, an advocate of the “responsibility to protect” (R2P) doctrine and U.S. involvement in multilateral military interv...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 25, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Ted Galen Carpenter Source Type: blogs
What Chernobyl can teach physicians about avoiding medical errors
I recently started watching the HBO series Chernobyl, chronicling the events surrounding the 1986 disaster. For anyone who hasn ’t seen it yet—I’d highly recommend this excellent production (It’s already deservedly won multiple awards). The great thing about TV like this, which documents real-life events (and I’d put another HBO series John Adams in the same […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 22, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/suneel-dhand" rel="tag" > Suneel Dhand, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Hospital-Based Medicine Malpractice Source Type: blogs
Medical error is not the third leading cause of death
Ever since the publication of the infamous 2016 BMJ opinion piece claiming medical error should be considered the third leading cause of death in the U.S., the debate on the true incidence of deaths caused by medical error has been raging. Many, including me, felt the estimate of 251,000 deaths per year from medical error was grossly […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 18, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/skeptical-scalpel" rel="tag" > Skeptical Scalpel, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Policy Malpractice Public Health & Source Type: blogs
Professional Indemnity is compulsory by law for doctors but there is a glitch in the system
Ever since the regulations for the Medical Act 1971 were updated in 2017, 2 important things affected doctors:
1) CPD became compulsory and doctors have to attain at least 20 CPD points (according to MMC guidelines). This was enforced in 2019’s application for the 2020 APC.
2) Professional Indemnity (PI) or malpractice insurance also became compulsory – this applies to ALL doctors who wish to have an APC, be they government doctors or those in private practice.
Here’s a screenshot of the Regulations 2017 amendment for your reference:
While PI is a requirement by law, it was not enforced in 2019 when doc...
Source: Malaysian Medical Resources - February 16, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Editor Tags: - Nation - Tips APC Dobbs Malpractice MMC PI Source Type: blogs
Report of the independent inquiry into the issues raised by Paterson
Paterson Inquiry - This inquiry has reviewed the circumstances surrounding surgeon Ian Paterson ’s malpractice and considered other past and current practices in the NHS and the independent sector. The inquiry aims to learn lessons from these and to make recommendations to improve the safety and quality of care provided to all patients.ReportInquiry websiteStatement (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 4, 2020 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Quality of care and clinical outcomes Regulation, governance and accountability Source Type: blogs
Reinventing CDS Requires Humility in the Face of Overwhelming Complexity
Paul Cerrato and I have created a new book,Reinventing Clinical Decision Support, our first to be published about Platform thinking. Although it is being published during my tenure at Mayo Clinic, it is not endorsed by Mayo Clinic and represents the personal opinions of Paul and me. Below is the preface.In our last book, on mobile health(1), we wrote about the power of words such as cynicism, optimism, and transformation. Another word with powerful connotations is misdiagnosis. To a patient whose condition remains undetected, it is a source of frustration and anger. To a physician or nurse who has be...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - December 30, 2019 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
The Public Health To-Do List is Choking Doctors and Jeopardizing Patients ’ Lives
By HANS DUVEFELT, MD
“By the way, Doc, why am I tired, what’s this lump and how do I get rid of my headaches?”
Every patient encounter is a potential deadly disease, disastrous outcome, or even a malpractice suit. As clinicians, we need to have our wits about us as we continually are asked to sort the wheat from the chaff when patients unload their concerns, big and small, on us during our fifteen minute visits.
But something is keeping us from listening to our patients with our full attention, and that something, in my opinion, is not doctor work but nurse work or even tasks for unlicensed staff: Our Publi...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 17, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Medical Practice Physicians Primary Care Hans Duvefelt public health Source Type: blogs
American Lung Association's Lies About E-Cigarettes are Dangerous and Irresponsible
Earlier this week, I revealed that, ironically, in a campaign attacking e-cigarette companies for lying to the public, the American Heart Association was itselflying to the public by asserting that e-cigarettes cannot help smokers quit.Today I reveal that, not to be outdone, the American Lung Association is lying even more blatantly to the public and in a way that is not only irresponsible but dangerous for the public ' s health.In apress release issued yesterday, the American Lung Association made the following claims:Cigarette smoking is no more hazardous than using e-cigarettes.E-cigarettes cannot help smokers quit.If y...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - December 5, 2019 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs
We Should Keep An Eye On Healthcare AI Medical Liability Risks
Today, most health IT leaders seem sold on the potential healthcare AI deployment can offer, as its benefits are becoming clearer every day. It’s becoming almost a no-brainer to believe that AI can do great things for the practice of predictive analytics, for example. In a recent survey by medical malpractice insurer The Doctors Company, […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 22, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: Anne Zieger Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Clinical EMR-EHR Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System AI Training Black Box Algorithms Healthcare AI Data Models Healthcare AI Liability Healthcare AI Problems Source Type: blogs
Retention of Audit Trails and Other Metadata are Critical to Limit Risk When Retiring Legacy Healthcare Systems
The following is a guest blog post by Justin Campbell, Vice President, Strategy, at Galen Healthcare Solutions. Successful healthcare data archiving with minimal risk requires preservation of the legal medical record (as defined by the organization), data sets such as contextual audit trails, referenced data in ancillary systems, data change and version history, and even database metadata. A […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 21, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Blogger Tags: C-Suite Leadership EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Dev Ops LTPAC Security and Privacy EHR Audit Logs EHR Audits EHR Malpractice EHR Malpractice Lawsuits Galen Healthcare Solutions Health Data R Source Type: blogs
Doctor by day, law student by night
I am a middle-aged, full-time emergency physician, and part-time law student. Usually, I practice medicine during the day and attend law classes in the evening. Sometimes I have law classes in the afternoon or early evening then work in the emergency department all night. So, what ’s harder: medical school or law school? Absolutely the most […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 16, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/melanie-heniff" rel="tag" > Melanie Heniff, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Hospital-Based Medicine Malpractice Source Type: blogs
