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    Healthcare Risk Management

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    June 1, 2022

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    As a valued Relias Media subscriber, you can find the latest issue of your publication online. The articles below provide timely strategies and research for healthcare providers:

    Nurse’s Criminal Conviction Could Chill Safety Investigations

    A former nurse was recently found guilty of negligent homicide related to a medication error. She admitted to overriding a safeguard before administering the wrong medication to a patient. The case may negatively affect safety investigations.

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    Engineering Students Help Hospital Address Safety Issues

    Johns Hopkins Hospital is addressing patient safety issues in a unique way by collaborating with engineering students from Johns Hopkins University. The program began in 2015, and the hospital has adopted many of the recommendations from the engineering students. Read More

    Engineering Students Offer Patient Safety Improvements

    Johns Hopkins engineering students participated in the Patient Safety Collaboration Program to reduce the risk of surgical site infections, which account for almost 20% of all hospital-acquired infections at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Read More

    Improve Patient Safety with Employee Rewards, Celebrations

    Active engagement with employees can help improve patient safety. Build a culture of safety by showing employees how much their contributions matter. Read More

    Hospitals Underreport to NPDB, Creating Doubt

    The Department of Justice recently announced a large healthcare system in the Northwest agreed to pay more than $22 million to settle allegations that two former spine surgeons falsified or exaggerated patient diagnoses and performed unnecessary surgeries. The case is the latest to show how problematic physicians often are not reported to the National Practitioner Data Bank. Read More

    Improve Handoffs with Patient Care Partners

    Quality patient handoffs are crucial to patient safety. They can be improved by expanding the scope of a handoff to include discharge. Hospitals can proactively ensure every patient is discharged with someone who is prepared to help the patient recover at home, or prepared to find others who can and will. Read More

    Many ED Malpractice Claims Are Rooted in Poor Communication

    Most ED patients are, at some point, handed off to other providers — admitting physicians, the ICU team, on-call consultants, or primary care physicians. Good communication is crucial in the ED. Read More

    Allegations of Failure to Diagnose Resulting in Toddler’s Death Sufficient for Malpractice

    This case reveals a common theme in medical malpractice actions: the critical importance of expert witnesses and testimony. As often is the case, both sides presented testimony from expert witnesses — qualified physicians who would support the actions taken by the respective side in the prosecution or defense of the litigation.

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    Failure to Perform Sterilization Leads to Unwanted Pregnancy, Litigation

    This case presents lessons about consent, notice, and records issues as well as interesting aspects of damages for this rather unique malpractice action. This case is a twist on consent and notice whereby the patient wanted a procedure, requested it, paid for it, and believed she received it. Read More

    Breach Report Reveals 61% Increase in Breaches Affecting 500+

    OCR recently submitted a report to Congress setting forth the HIPAA breaches and complaints reported in 2020 as well as the enforcement actions taken by OCR. For 2020, OCR reported 656 notifications of breaches affecting 500 or more individuals, 66,509 notifications of breaches affecting fewer than 500 individuals, and 27,182 complaints alleging violations of HIPAA and the HITECH Act. Read More

    OCR Researching How Covered Entities Implement Security Practices

    OCR recently released a request for information soliciting public comment on how regulated entities are voluntarily implementing security practices under the HITECH Act. It also is seeking public input on sharing funds collected through enforcement with individuals who are harmed via HIPAA violations. Read More
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    Healthcare Risk Management (Vol. 44, No. 6) - June 2022
    June 1, 2022

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    Nurse’s Criminal Conviction Could Chill Safety Investigations

    Engineering Students Help Hospital Address Safety Issues

    Engineering Students Offer Patient Safety Improvements

    Improve Patient Safety with Employee Rewards, Celebrations

    Hospitals Underreport to NPDB, Creating Doubt

    Improve Handoffs with Patient Care Partners

    Many ED Malpractice Claims Are Rooted in Poor Communication

    Allegations of Failure to Diagnose Resulting in Toddler’s Death Sufficient for Malpractice

    Failure to Perform Sterilization Leads to Unwanted Pregnancy, Litigation

    Breach Report Reveals 61% Increase in Breaches Affecting 500+

    OCR Researching How Covered Entities Implement Security Practices

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    Financial Disclosure: Consulting Editor Arnold Mackles, MD, MBA, LHRM, discloses that he is an author and advisory board member for The Sullivan Group and that he is owner, stockholder, presenter, author, and consultant for Innovative Healthcare Compliance Group. The relevant financial relationships listed have been mitigated. None of the remaining planners or authors for this educational activity have relevant financial relationships to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

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