How Could the Advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) Impact Healthcare as a Profession?
Artificial intelligence (AI) has potential to be a powerful ally for healthcare professionals in ensuring the delivery of high-quality care—while also creating potential new patient safety risks. Presented by Erik Brynjolfsson, PhD, Professor and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI).
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Mar 07, 2023
Primary Care Innovations Can Deepen the Specialty
Dr. Megan Mahoney outlines ways that team-focused innovations in care models and technologies can help preserve depth in primary care, even as it faces a physician shortage.
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Practice Risk Insight
Our Practice Risk INSIGHT can identify potential risks in the most critical aspects of your practice. It has been customized for various specialties to reflect your practice environment.
Nonadherent and Noncompliant Patients: Overcoming Barriers
Nonadherent or noncompliant patient conduct (whether intentional or inadvertent) can adversely affect clinical outcomes, undermine the practitioner-patient relationship, and disrupt the operation of practice.
Legislative, Regulatory, and Judicial Advocacy
TDC Group is relentlessly committed to supporting medical liability reform and to safeguarding access to patient care. We lead the industry with a dedicated, award-winning Government Relations team and the only medical liability advocacy program covering all 50 states and the federal level.
Communication Breakdowns Lead to Missed Spinal Epidural Abscess: Case Study
Experts discuss a case involving multiple communication breakdowns that contributed to the patient’s poor outcome and provide strategies to improve processes.
Referral and Negligent Referral in a Dental Practice
We outline actionable strategies to help dental professionals keep patients safe and avoid potential liability when referring patients to specialty providers.
Nov 18, 2025
The Doctors Company Foundation Honors the Life and Legacy of Patient Safety Luminary Lucian Leape, MD
We are deeply saddened by the passing earlier this year of Lucian Leape, MD, a giant in healthcare who is widely considered the parent of the modern patient safety movement.
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Flu, RSV, or COVID-19? Convergence of Three Viruses Creates Risk of Diagnostic Errors
Healthcare practitioners will encounter flu, RSV, and COVID-19 year-round, with peaks in fall and winter that can strain clinics and hospitals. These surges may overwhelm primary care offices and emergency departments, creating shortages of pediatric and adult hospital beds. To promote and improve patient safety, office practices should prepare now to vaccinate and test for flu, RSV, and COVID-19.
Mar 04, 2024
Patient Safety Impact Story: Documentation Can Prevent Litigation
Our experts partnered with a general surgery practice to dramatically improve its after-hours call documentation rate.
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