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HIPAA Consent Form: An Essential Tool in Preserving Patient Privacy

Compliancy Group

Failure to get informed consent can have dire consequences for your organization. Furthermore, a doctor using or sharing PHI without proper authorization can be liable for malpractice simply for breaching the principle of informed consent. HIPAA Photo Consent Form Not all PHI use is related to treatment.

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What Are the Main Types of Healthcare Incidents?

MedTrainer

An incident report is thorough documentation of the incident , including all relevant details that caused it and any outcomes that stemmed from it. The key to a good incident report is completeness and accuracy, and that means documenting as much information as possible. What Is an Incident Report? There were 45.9

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Introduction to Telebehavioral Health

AIHC

Keep in mind coding and documentation is extremely important for psychiatric services – consider registering for the Psychiatric Compliance – coding & documentation short course offered by the American Institute of Healthcare Compliance. Obtaining informed consent with your patient is typically done before the first appointment.

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Health Provider News – February 10, 2023

Hall Render

over Claims Practices Where things stand in Central California 1 month after a community hospital’s closure California hospital names Kelly Linden CEO Upcoming California health bills to watch, including a conversation with Rep.

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Always Liability Increases (ALI)?  Not Yet with Medical Monitoring.

Drug & Device Law

There was an insufficient time to discuss the Torts: Medical Malpractice draft. Tentative Draft #2, at 30, lines 24-26 (that’s how ALI citations to intra-Institute documents are done). Actions Taken Membership voted to approve §§48D-48F (Sepulcher) of the draft. Membership discussed but did not vote on the topic of medical monitoring.

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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. Abbott Laboratories, Inc. ,

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Operating Room Nurse Expert Witness Retained on a Retained Foreign Object Case

Med League

A well-qualified Operating Room Nurse Expert witness was retained on a case where the operating room staff failed to advocate for the patient’s right to provide informed consent and failed to accurately document implement counting procedures for all surgical items that potentially can be retained.

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