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Clinical Simulation and its Integral Role in Healthcare Training

HIT Consultant

In another study by Harvard scientists, the monetary value of simulation training was assessed by examining malpractice claims. 2 The researchers observed a statistically significant reduction in malpractice claims for trained gynecologists and obstetricians who have participated in simulation training. References. Hayden, JK.

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Telemedicine: What Slows Down the Healthcare of the Future

HIT Consultant

According to CRICO’s national CBS Database, 66% of malpractice cases in telemedicine from 2014 to 2018 were connected to misdiagnosis. Pandemic allowed those who were hesitant to try out telemedicine. Still, there are many challenges to overcome. Misdiagnoses.

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Health Provider News – April 1, 2022

Hall Render

Despite malpractice lawsuits, Gainesville hospital stands behind star surgeon. UPMC begins payments to 66,000 employees affected by 2014 data breach. Georgia mental health bill passes unanimously through state Legislature, heads to Kemp’s desk. State hits Anthem with whopping fine for insurance violations.

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

GoFundMe page COVID-19 hospitalizations rose all summer in Pa.

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Guest Post – Curling Up With a Good Reasonable Alternative Design Opinion

Drug & Device Law

But anyone who has a medical malpractice defense practice will be interested in that rationale. Similarly, the plaintiff must show the safety benefits from the proposed design are foreseeably greater than the resulting costs, including diminished usefulness or diminished safety.” at *20 (citing Casey v. Toyota Motor Engineering & Mfg.

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Confident Learned Intermediaries Defeat Warning Causation

Drug & Device Law

They’re experienced at what they do and aren’t intimidated by plaintiffs’ counsel and their threats of malpractice claims if they don’t testify the way plaintiffs want them to. procedure that existed at the time of [plaintiff’s] injury”; malpractice was “intervening cause”) (applying Kansas law); Eck v. 2014 WL 1276489, at *6 (E.D.

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Questionable Treater Affidavit Insufficient Support For Defect Claim

Drug & Device Law

The pre-litigation facts of Donaldson are fairly simple: Implant in 2010 of the two devices and treatment in 2014 for “injuries resulting from erosion of the mesh into her bladder, vagina and adjacent tissues, causing scarring, bladder stones and abdominal pain, among other problems.”