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Articles Tagged With: recording

  • Emergency Providers Uneasy About Recording Visits

    Clinicians might need more information, such as specifics on who would record the discharge instructions, whether it would be recorded on the patient’s personal smartphone, and what safeguards could be required to ensure patient privacy. Combined with possible involvement of the hospital’s legal department, this might make providers more comfortable with the idea.

  • Admissibility of ED Recordings Depends on Multiple Factors

    Even if the patient recorded the entire discharge instructions, relevant discussions might have happened throughout the visit. The defense can challenge the admissibility based on that argument, but the ruling could go either way.

  • Admissibility of ED Recordings Depends on Multiple Factors

    Even if the patient recorded the entire discharge instructions, relevant discussions might have happened throughout the visit. The defense can challenge the admissibility based on that argument, but the ruling could go either way.

  • Emergency Providers Uneasy About Recording Visits

    Clinicians might need more information, such as specifics on who would record the discharge instructions, whether it would be recorded on the patient’s personal smartphone, and what safeguards could be required to ensure patient privacy. Combined with possible involvement of the hospital’s legal department, this might make providers more comfortable with the idea.

  • Hospital Manager Dismisses Patient’s Complaint After She Secretly Records Comments in the OR

    A patient’s secret recording of her surgery revealed what one risk manager calls “inexcusable and reprehensible” behavior, including disparaging remarks about her body, comments that could be considered racially offensive, and suggestions that the woman be touched inappropriately by members of the OR team. The recording also documents what could be malpractice: a surgeon administering penicillin after he verbally acknowledged her allergy.

  • Risk Manager Dismisses Complaint after Patient Secretly Records Surgery

    A patient’s secret recording of her surgery revealed what one risk manager calls “inexcusable and reprehensible” behavior, including disparaging remarks about her body, comments that could be considered racially offensive, and suggestions that the woman be touched inappropriately by members of the OR team. The recording also documents what could be malpractice: a surgeon administering penicillin after he verbally acknowledged her allergy.

  • Patient Secretly Records Disparaging Remarks in Surgery

    Customer service and public image took a big hit at Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital in Houston recently when a patient revealed that she had recorded her surgical team making disparaging remarks about during a procedure to repair a hiatal hernia.

  • Newly developed surgical ‘black box’ is similar to airplane device used to analyze data after crash

    An adverse event investigation typically must rely on a mix of people’s imperfect memories and incomplete data. However, there is growing interest in using systems during surgery that record a wealth of information — not just videotape, but data from the devices used in the operation and other information such as the correct timeout procedure.