Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (Part 2)
As the use of AI in healthcare ramps up, there is an ongoing necessity for healthcare systems to regularly assess the impact and risks of AI as its development and deployment is outpacing legal, medical, or business changes.
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) applications is the most important new information technology in decades that will change healthcare. This creates an ongoing necessity for healthcare systems to regularly assess the impact and risks of AI as its development and deployment is outpacing legal, medical, or business changes.
June 15 is World Elder Abuse Awareness Day
June 15 commemorates World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD), a day for people and organizations to get informed and take action to protect older individuals against elder abuse. Elder abuse refers to intentional or negligent acts by a caregiver or trusted individual that causes harm to an older person.
When Providers Criticize Other Providers; Recognizing the Difference Between Medical Errors and Jousting
These case studies present two situations where a physician sees a patient who has apparent medical misdiagnosis or mismanagement by a prior provider.
Breaking Down the New Rules on Patient Access to Medical Records
In the era of open access, patient portals, and new information blocking rules, patients now have the ability to demand documentation of their visits with medical providers. Find out what the new rules mean for providers, including common records to which patients don't have access
Breaking Down the New Rules on Patient Access to Medical Records
In the era of open access, patient portals, and new information blocking rules, patients now have the ability to demand documentation of their visits with medical providers.
Following Uniform Guidance for Procurement in Your Healthcare Organization
Breakdown of how to follow “Uniform Guidance for Procurement in Your Healthcare Organization”
Understanding The Information Blocking Rule
Information Blocking is the term adopted by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) to address barriers to accessing electronically stored patient information by providers, patients, and others entitled to it.
What Business Leaders Can Do to Prepare for the Next Normal
Protecting Your Practice in the Age of Telecare
Among other things, 2020 will go down as The Year of Telemedicine. What began as a response to COVID-19 has emerged to become a more permanent shift in health care.
Five Solutions to Key Accounting Challenges Hospitals Face in the New Normal
The COVID-19 pandemic has created many new challenges for hospitals to manage and exacerbated existing complexities. A few examples are: Regulatory compliance, Telemedicine and telehealth, New competition, Revenue and receivables, Financial reporting, Higher deductible plans, Cancelled or deferred services, COVID-related expenses.
Six Ways to Minimize Medical Liability Risk
When it comes to medical liability risks, you can never overemphasize prevention. The best way to avoid adverse outcomes is implementing measures that prevent them from happening in the first place. Read on for a list of six ways to be proactive and minimize your liability.
Six Ways to Minimize Medical Liability Risk
When it comes to medical liability risks, you can never overemphasize prevention. The best way to avoid adverse outcomes is implementing measures that prevent them from happening in the first place.
Considerations for Law Enforcement Interactions
Health care providers may experience interactions with law enforcement personnel that create uncertainty around their responsibilities to patients, including the duty to protect patients’ privacy. Law enforcement personnel are tasked with ensuring public safety and conducting criminal investigations.
Handling Attorney Requests for Medical Records
One of the challenges of being a medical provider is when your world intersects with the legal world. It can place you in situations where confusion and concern may arise when deciding the proper course of action. A common example is when health care providers receive medical records request from an attorney.
Protecting Your Online Reputation
Dean McConnell, JD, is Senior Legal Counsel with COPIC, a leading provider of medical professional liability insurance.
When You Need to Say No
In conversations about opioid prescriptions, there can be unspoken fears and motivations swirling beneath the surface. The patient may be fearful, aggressive or even dishonest. The clinician may fear backlash if the answer is no, but also knows that saying no could save a life.
Prioritizing Workplace Safety
Developing and maintaining an active risk management program can be a challenge for any employer. Healthcare facilities are no different and face many of the same obstacles that other industries are challenged with overcoming.
Closing the Loop on Diagnostic Error
Traditionally, diagnosis has been thought of as solely the physician’s responsibility; accordingly, most leaders of healthcare organizations take a hands-off approach. But, according to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, diagnostic error is not simply failing to diagnose correctly—it’s the failure to establish an accurate and timely explanation of the patient's health problem or communicate it to the patient.1
South Dakota Enacts Data Breach Notification Law
Effective July 1, healthcare providers, business associates, and other businesses maintaining patient information in South Dakota, will have a new law with which to adhere.