Publications & Resources

Diagnostic error, test follow-up, infection control and physician burnout top ECRI Institute’s 2019 list of “Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for Healthcare Organizations.”

ONC has released a draft strategy it believes will lessen the regulatory and administrative burden of health information technologies, such as EHRs. MLMIC encourages all insured stakeholders to take this opportunity to offer their input.

The Fall 2018 edition of Dateline – the newsletter for MLMIC-insured physicians and facilities – includes a risk/benefit analysis of EHR data storage options and a case study on poor documentation and communication.

MLMIC’s newest online CME-only modules address risk management topics related to physician advertising, telephone triage, electronic health records and voice recognition software.

MLMIC’s Annual Risk Management Seminar features the foremost experts in the healthcare industry on current trends and topics essential to ongoing, effective risk management.

MLMIC supports exploring ways to reduce the barriers that computers in exam rooms may introduce into the physician patient relationship. Actively engaging patients in the process of incorporating their health concerns into the EHR may be beneficial to both the patient and the provider.

As part of MLMIC’s ongoing commitment to help physicians and other healthcare practitioners improve the quality of patient care and reduce potential liability exposure, we’ve developed a new online risk management CME program for policyholders.

A new report from NIST explores the use of “copy and paste” functionality, specifically how it may lead to errors that could affect patient safety.

Hospitals aren’t the only facilities at risk. Private practices, which typically do not have onsite IT personnel, are vulnerable to ransomware and other attacks by hackers.

Efforts are underway by companies who create EHRs to design and implement health IT systems that produce more targeted and relevant alerts to decrease alert fatigue, while still providing beneficial warnings.