The year-end is a great time to think about your organization’s risk management needs and how best to control costs and reduce taxes. One possibility is through the use of captive insurance companies, or captives. What Benefits Do Captives Provide?…
For the first time, a medical study found that double-booked surgeries put patients at risk for serious complications, including infections and a need for follow-up surgery. The study looked at more than 90,000 hip operations in hospitals across Ontario, Canada finding that…
We live in a culture of surveillance; it’s everywhere from the workplace to the home. For healthcare organizations that reality presents new challenges and risk, as seen in a recent news story from Georgia. According to USA Today, hidden camera…
As technology gets cheaper and more accessible for all organizations, analysts and risk managers say a top-down commitment is necessary to assess the risk of technology and limit exposure with planning and with insurance. One problem is the technology can…
By Stephanie O’Neill | Kaiser Health News Health officials in California are struggling to contain fierce outbreaks of hepatitis A among homeless people and drug abusers in three counties, including San Diego, where at least 17 people have died. Hundreds…
Physicians cited “fear of malpractice” as the top reason for the overtreatment of patients, according to a new study. Eight of every 10 doctors attributed overtreatment to fear of malpractice (84.7%), patient pressure or request was the next highest reason…
Online ratings don’t help patients looking for the best doctor, according to a new study. Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center compared the reviews of 78 of the medical center’s specialists to its own internal performance metrics and found there…
California’s Medical Board has the right to obtain prescription records without a warrant or subpoena, according to a California Supreme Court ruling last month. A Burbank internist brought a lawsuit contending his three-year probation violated his patients’ privacy after the…
By Jordan Rau | Kaiser Health News Amid all the turbulence over the future of the Affordable Care Act, one facet continues unchanged: President Donald Trump’s administration is penalizing more than half the nation’s hospitals for having too…
Data breaches in the U.S. hit a new mid-year record, according to a report by the Identity Theft Resource Center and CyberScout. The 791 breaches so far in 2017 are a 29% jump over the same period in 2016 and puts the…
