Hospitalists: Their Role and Who They Are Over the past couple of decades, and increasingly moreso recently, hospitalists have come to play an important role in the health care community. While there have always been doctors who worked primarily in hospitals, the position has only recently come into its own as a unique and increasingly
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In our newest blog post, we break out the Business Owner’s Policy. One of our goals at eQuoteMD is to help doctors and medical professionals think about the kinds of routine challenges and decisions they have to face every day, not just in terms of medical malpractice insurance, but in the broader course of a
READ MOREA Medical Malpractice Reform Roundup
Despite then Senator Barack Obama’s support for medical malpractice reform in 2006, when he co-authored an article for the New England Journal of Medicine with Hillary Clinton highlighting its importance, the healthcare reform bill that we ended up with does little to nothing to address malpractice reform. On one hand, that is frustrating to many of us
READ MOREDefensive Medicine: Arbitration, Is it Feasible?
Over the past several weeks here at eQuoteMD we’ve been taking a look at the issue of defensive medicine, defined as the practice of ordering medical tests, procedures, or consultations of doubtful clinical value in order to protect the prescribing physician from malpractice suits. In other words, defensive medicine describes the result of the feeling that many
READ MOREDefensive Medicine: Is Apologizing the Answer?
Over the last few weeks we’ve been considering the problem of doctor’s feeling pressured to practice defensive medicine and the costs associated with that as well as some of the proposals that have been made to combat these problems. As we’ve noted in previous articles simply put defensive medicine is the practice of ordering medical tests, procedures,
READ MOREDefensive Medicine: Safe Harbors as a Solution
Today’s is the third post in our ongoing series on defensive medicine, its costs, and measures that have been proposed to combat it. In the first post we introduced defensive medicine, defined as the practice of ordering medical tests, procedures, or consultations of doubtful clinical value in order to protect the prescribing physician from malpractice suits. We also reviewed
READ MOREDefensive Medicine: Are Patient Compensation Systems the Answer?
In this series we are looking at defensive medicine, or “the practice of ordering medical tests, procedures, or consultations of doubtful clinical value in order to protect the prescribing physician from malpractice suits.” In our last post we considered the cost of defensive medicine and the most commonly proposed solution, tort reform. With surveys showing that 70% to
READ MOREDefensive Medicine: What can be done?
What is defensive medicine? Merriam Webster defines defensive medicine as the practice of ordering medical tests, procedures, or consultations of doubtful clinical value in order to protect the prescribing physician from malpractice suits. Further, as noted in a 2005 Journal of the American Medical Association article, Defensive medicine takes two main forms: assurance behavior and avoidance behavior.
READ MOREThe Future of Healthcare
The Doctors Company Releases Study Surveying Doctors on the Future of Healthcare: Uncertainty and Frustration with Healthcare Reform Clear Stand Outs The Doctors Company, one of the nation’s largest medical malpractice insurers, has released the results of a survey they did in which they asked over 5,000 physicians from across all 50 states a series
READ MORETechnology Risk Management in Healthcare
Technology is developing and changing today at a pace that is surely unprecedented in recent history. That constant development and change can be overwhelming, leaving us stressed out, confused, and sometimes wishing we could just bury our heads in the sand and ignore it all. But the reality is that such an approach isn’t feasible,
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