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Jun 18, 2024
Choose Your Most Important Quality Measure, Examine for Equity, and Begin
Mark D. Smith, MD, MBA, Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSF; Founding President, California Health Care Foundation
Guest author Mark D. Smith, MD, MBA, considers the connections between equity and high-quality care and offers strategies for prioritizing efforts.
From The Doctor’s Advocate

Ambulatory Lab and Test Tracking
Managing patient test results in ambulatory practices can pose a significant challenge. Establishing a standardized workflow to track results is a successful strategy for avoiding missed or delayed diagnosis that can lead to patient injury.

INSIGHT Programs
Our Patient Safety INSIGHT Services take a data-driven, collaborative approach to help you reduce adverse events while increasing patient safety and satisfaction.

Jan 12, 2024
Interoperable Telehealth: Patient Safety Considerations
Sue Boisvert, BSN, MHSA, Senior Patient Safety Risk Manager, The Doctors Company
As efforts to connect patients and providers through telehealth continue, new delivery challenges have become apparent.

Perinatal Malpractice Claims: Communication and Technical Skills Limit Risks
To improve obstetric care by advising practitioners, this analysis of medical malpractice claims explores perinatal allegations related to the fetus and neonate, their major injuries, and associated contributing factors.

Telehealth: Remote Monitoring Problems
Remote patient monitoring technologies offer many benefits, but they also create potential malpractice risks.

Mar 07, 2025
Early Wins in Integrating AI Into a Healthcare System
Meg Burke Dingae, MHSA, Chief Digital Officer, Montage Health
A healthcare system finds success in implementing AI tools for practitioner keyboard liberation and patient care gap closure.
From The Doctor’s Advocate

Remote Patient Monitoring and Telehealth Care
Remote patient monitoring is advancing the safety and accuracy of telehealth by filling in some gaps and increasing the types of care that can safely be provided in the home.

Oct 26, 2023
Documentation Can Prevent Litigation
Here is one story of how our Patient Safety/Risk Management team reduced risk in a member practice.

Patient Safety in Dentistry: Documentation
The primary purpose of documentation is to create an orderly chronological record of the clinical decision-making process, treatment provided, and patient responses.