Risk Management and Patient Safety

Jun 12, 2018
Digital Medicine and the Future of Healthcare
The digitization of medicine is transforming the entire healthcare system—new technologies like mobile apps and wearables bring both benefits and risks, patient access to healthcare is evolving, EHRs have created new patient safety risks, and artificial intelligence is evolving to play a role in future patient care.

Jun 07, 2018
MACRA Is a Marathon, Not a Sprint: Stay in the Race
Robin Diamond, MSN, JD, RN, Patient Safety and Risk Management Consultant, with contributions by Kim Hathaway, Healthcare Quality and Risk Consultant
The MACRA 2018 rule is intended to ease some of the burdens on small practices and groups and began its performance period in January 2018 by maintaining flexibility and adding more pathways for small practices and solo practitioners to successfully participate.

Jun 06, 2018
Five Best Practices to Meet MACRA/MIPS Requirements
Kim Hathaway, MSN, CPHRM, Healthcare Quality and Risk Consultant
In 2018, the MACRA threshold to avoid a penalty increases, as do the requirements to hit exceptional performance. Here are steps practices can take to succeed in MACRA/MIPS this year.

Jun 06, 2018
Is It Safe to Store PHI on Remote Cloud Servers?
David McHale, Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Counsel
Cloud storage is a convenient and cost-effective solution for medical practices and facilities, but precautions must be taken to ensure stored patient data (PHI) is secure. This article has tips for choosing a cloud service provider.

Jun 05, 2018
Define Your Core Values, Transform Your Medical Practice
Brandon Betancourt, practice administrator for Salud Pediatrics in Chicago, describes how his practice defined core values to address challenges and provide optimal patient care.

May 24, 2018
Physician Learning Must Evolve to Keep Healthcare Workforce Prepared
Eric Barna, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine/Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital
Funded by a grant from The Doctors Company Foundation, Mt. Sinai is the first hospital in New York that has established a program designed specifically to assess and address some of the unique communication challenges facing hospitalists to improve patient care.