risk management

In November of 2014, on an otherwise ordinary day at St. John’s hospital in Maplewood, MI, 68-year-old Charles Logan wrested a bar from his hospital bed and attacked several nurses. Surveillance video shows Logan’s rampage through the nurse’s station, as panicked workers flee and try to help one another escape, but Logan manages to strike four of […]

1 Hand Washing Hand and wrist hygiene is crucial in helping to prevent the spread of germs and infections. One of the most important things that you can do to protect patients is also one of the easiest — wash your hands. 2 Worker Fatigue We are all human and we need our sleep and down-time.

We’ve all heard the horror stories — a surgeon accidentally amputates the wrong leg, or open-heart surgery is performed on the wrong patient — and while these are the ones that grab the headlines, medical errors are a far more common occurrence than many believe. A controversial new study published in BMJ by researchers at Johns Hopkins

We recently read an interesting article about a physicians group dealing with the prolonged illness of one of its partners. The partners had drafted what they thought was a concise and complete partnership agreement including the usual clauses: what to do in the case of the death of a partner, how to remove a partner,

We read a frightening article over the weekend concerning a so-called ransomware attack on a large Los Angeles hospital in which the hospital eventually agreed to fork over $17,000 dollars to the thieves to restore access to its electronic communication systems. Though the ransomware attack at no time disrupted effective medical care during the time

Consider how much has changed in the last 20 years as it relates to the storage of medical records. There was a time, a fairly recent time, when if a thief wanted to steal or malign patient records, he would have to physically get near them and remove them from under lock and key. In