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Risk Management Handbooks:
Georgia, North Carolina, Florida, South Carolina & Virginia Handbooks are currently available, with the Alabama edition coming online shortly. Complete one of our Handbook CMEs and receive five hours of credit.

Latest CME program: Lung Cancer: Making the Elusive Diagnosis
Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer death in the US. This program highlights the insightful findings of a recent large closed claim study. It ends with practical risk management recommendations that every practice should know about.

Correcting Errors in the Electronic Medical Record

“IN OUR EXPERIENCE” - Come Learn Risk Management Lessons from Our Own Closed Claims!

RISK MANAGEMENT + QUALITY = DEVELOPING EXCELLENCE IN QUALITY AND PATIENT SAFETY - Click here to visit our new Quality page.

Click here to visit the Small Practice Resource Center or the New Physician Resource Center.

AMA adopts new guidelines for internet prescribing - The AMA has adopted guidelines to help physicians safely and securely prescribe medications to patients via the Internet. (Guidelines)

New GBS Guidelines - Group B streptococcus (GBS) is a leading cause of serious infection in newborns. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued new guidelines recommending universal prenatal screening for vaginal and rectal GBS colonization of all pregnant women at 35 to 37 weeks gestation. The new guidelines replace 1996 CDC guidelines.

Frequently Asked Questions - Some of the most commonly asked risk management questions are gathered and answered.

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Colorectal Cancer Screening Algorithm

The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005.
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) report noted that medical errors are the eighth leading cause of death in the United States with as many as 98,000 people dying per year...

Hospitalists who are they…what do they do…collaboration is key to success. Hospital medicine is the discipline concerned with the general medical care of hospitalized patients..

Senate Bill 480- As passed an Act. Be it Enacted By The General Assembly of Georgia...

Coumadin Therapy & Reimbursement- Frequently physicians ask, “I have many patients on Coumadin (Warfarin Sodium) Therapy. Currently many of them receive their PT/INR tests in my office. Is it appropriate..

.The Physician-Patient “Tug of War” Part One & Part Two - If you’re wondering why so many patient office visits turn into a tug of war, it’s partly because physicians and patients are often on different ends of the rope..

Curbing the Curbside Consult - How often has a colleague asked you for your opinion about the condition of a patient whom you’ve never examined and without requesting a formal consultation? Curbside consultations, as they have been labeled, are widespread in medicine...

Risk Management Suggestions for OB/GYNs - These suggestions were developed to assist the OB/GYN practitioner in making judgments about the management of patients, particularly in areas where there is significant claims experience.

Practice Management Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs). Visit our new practice management website for additional information

Telephone Encounters & Triage - Information given via telephone by a staff member who is neither trained nor licensed to perform that function may expose the practice to liability and the patient to harmful advice.

Managing Medical Malpractice Stress - Medical training rarely addresses, let alone confers immunity from the harmful effects of medical malpractice litigation. Here is what you need to know to begin to transform the experience.