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Mobile Devices and Medical Liability: Some Important Considerations

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Implications of mobile devices for medical liability, and how it will affect healthcare providers

Why Malpractice Lawyers Could Be Knocking on The Door of the Medical App World – A Big Danger for the Small Developer

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Medical practice is a big business. Conservative estimates put the total cost of medical malpractice at nearly $35 billion annually and, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation report, nearly $5 billion is paid in claims each year. With an average claims payment of about $300,000 and up to 50% of that going to the lawyers representing the patient, its not surprising that practically every show on cable television has at least one advertisement imploring patients who have suffered practically any [Read more]

Electronic Health Records and Liability: What Happens When the System Fails?

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The march is on across the American healthcare landscape to implement electronic health records that  also function as decision-support systems. These “advanced” electronic health records will both provide centralized records and assist providers in making care decisions such as implementing therapy and utilizing evidence-based practice on the individual patient level. And anyone that has had the opportunity to work with some of the systems out there knows that they can be pretty impressive, doing everything from risk stratification for embolic [Read more]