Many physicians feel that circumstances and risks surrounding professional liability or medical malpractice claims are beyond their control. This belief can be terrifying and devastating. We are going to analyze a difficult fact pattern to identify issues affecting patient safety and their professional liability implications. Preventing medical liability claims hinges upon numerous factors, but many of them, as we will see, are within a physician’s control or influence. Using expert legal insights, we will explore how sound risk management principles empower providers and protect them from the vagaries of professional liability claims.

A sound set of well-documented employment polices provides a firm foundation for making wise HR decisions and avoiding litigation.  This second webinar in a two-part series goes beyond the litigation risks and best practices discussed in “Tiptoeing Through the Minefield: Lessons from an Employment Litigator” to identify key policies every employer should have, recommend policy updates based on recent legal developments, and explain how to properly implement and enforce them to further mitigate litigation risk. 

Learning Objectives:

Participation in this seminar will better enable learners to:

• Key employment policies your company should have;
• Updates that should be made to your current policies based on recent legal developments;
• Why such policies are important and how they mitigate risk of employment litigation; and
• How to properly implement and enforce such policies.

Learning Objectives:

Participation in this seminar will better enable learners to:

• Understand licensing implications of medical malpractice settlements;
• Learn the multiple other bases the State has to investigate your license and what to do if you are contacted by an investigator;
• Provide an overview of the “typical” licensing matter;
• Identify trends in licensing investigations -namely related to prescriber issues.

Learning Objectives:
Participation in this seminar will better enable learners to:

• Explore the implications for malpractice liability resulting from key functionalities of EMR systems, including templates and copy and paste functionalities.
• Discuss how the EMR is redesigning medical liability by modifying the way in which courts determine the standard of care.
• Provide case examples to illustrate and reinforce how the EMR can lead to medical malpractice.
• Review best documentation practices in an EMR. How to make certain your documentation is compliant. Describe how clinicians can protect themselves by managing and mitigating EMR risks.
• Discuss how the EMR has changed documentation and communication.