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How will the following topics affect your practice: Avoidance of At-Risk Beneficiaries, Patient Compliance, Explaining the Benefits of the ACO to Patients, ACO Notification Requirements for Medicare Beneficiaries

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In conjunction with clinical experts from Harvard-affiliated health care organizations, CRICO develops and maintains evidence-based decision support tools for physicians and nurses whose patient encounters align with high-severity malpractice risks. These guidelines, algorithms, and other tools are designed and periodically updated to help clinicians identify risk prone steps in specific diagnostic or treatment processes, and suggest protocols.

Chronology of a Malpractice CaseBy Claire Cronin, MD, FACS, MBA

June 6, 2013

CRICO does a great job of representing physicians during a malpractice claim, but the legal stages of a trial are very different from the emotional ones.

What would you do?By Tom Sequist, MD

June 5, 2013

53-year-old dies following a missed diagnosis during an office visit with his PCP. Take this quiz to test your diagnostic skill presented with the following situation.

Our Juries: Partners in JusticeBy William J. Dailey, Jr., Esq. and John P. Ryan, Esq., Sloane & Walsh, LLP

June 1, 2013

Each year, between 650 and 750 medical malpractice cases will be filed in the Massachusetts courts. Each case will involve one or more healthcare providers being named as defendants. The great majority of these professionals will experience significant emotional distress and will feel challenged professionally. Many will be angry.

In Defense of the Jury System
By Elizabeth Cushing Esq, CRICO;
Hiller B. Zobel; Ellen Epstein Cohen

June 1, 2013

Patients and clinicians alike need to be able to rely on a consistent, objective, and fair review of the case.

Star PowerBy Jock Hoffman, CRICO

May 29, 2013

Proper management of genetic testing begins with aligning expectations.

Game Changing Fellowship ProgramBy Yael Kushner, MD, Patient Safety and Quality Fellow

May 24, 2013

Current fellow states: This unique fellowship, the first of its kind in the country, provides one-of-a-kind exposure to all aspects of health care quality and patient safety, including refinement of leadership skills for success as an effective leader and change agent.

Trying M&Ms for Outpatient CareBy Tom A. Augello, CRICO

May 17, 2013

Morbidity and mortality rounds are a time-honored method of learning from difficult hospital cases. Now that most care—and most lawsuits—happen in ambulatory settings, the Harvard teaching hospitals are trying M&Ms at their out-patient sites.

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