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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

Hall Render

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

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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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Removal, Severance & Rule 21

Drug & Device Law

That started us thinking about other uses of severance of non-indispensable parties to preserve diversity – particularly, as in the Rejuvenate case, medical malpractice defendants in product liability litigation – to preserve federal diversity jurisdiction. We most recently returned to this issue here , where we discussed Sullivan v.

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Guest Post – More on Expert Gatekeeping in West Virginia

Drug & Device Law

Then, in 2014 the Court amended Rule 702 from mirroring its federal counterpart to expressly limiting the Daubert admissibility analysis to “novel scientific theory, principle, methodology, or procedure.” Therefore, a court considering the admissibility of such evidence should not apply the gatekeeper analysis set forth by this Court in Wilt v.

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Live Free, or at Least Have a Present Injury

Drug & Device Law

2014 WL 3868022, at *5 n.5 5, 2014); Rosmer v. Right now, the schedule for the meeting has debate on the “Restatement of the Law Third, Torts: Medical Malpractice & Miscellaneous Provisions” – which includes the medical monitoring proposal – set for Monday, May 22 at 10:30 a.m. Philip Morris USA, Inc. , 3d 181, 186-87 (Or.