Recent Risk Management Seminar --
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"From Theory to Practice: Risk Management and Patient Safety"
September 30, 2005 - Columbus, OH

Seminars materials include slides, resources and articles covering the following topics:

Patients with Suicidal Behaviors and Risk Management
• The standard of care factors that will be assessed in a medical malpractice lawsuit involving patient suicide
• Risk management strategies to utilize to reduce risk when treating patients with suicidal behaviors

Dangerous Patients and High Risk Professional Liability Risk
• Categories of clinical courses of action that can be taken working with dangerous patients

Thinking Outside the FDA Black Box: Risk Management and Psychopharmocology
• How recent FDA public health advisories about antidepressants may impact malpractice liability exposure for psychiatrists
• Why medications errors and adverse medication reactions constitute high-risk malpractice liability exposure
• Steps which can reduce malpractice liability exposure associated with prescribing psychotropic medications

Risk Management Process and the Basics of Medical Malpractice Lawsuits
• The risk management process
• The elements of a medical malpractice lawsuit and the role of the expert witness

A Defense Attorney's Perspective on Psychiatric Malpractice Lawsuits
• Various actions which a psychiatrist can take to reduce or prevent medical malpractice risk, based on what has been learned through the process of litigation

Does Saying You're Sorry Mean You Never Have to Be Involved in a Malpractice Lawsuit?
• The functions and components of the informed consent process
• The benefits of good psychiatrist-patient communication
• Reasons why patients file medical malpractice lawsuits
• The importance of appropriate documentation in minimizing malpractice liability exposure
• How appropriate communication with patients and families about unanticipated outcomes can improve patient care and decrease liability exposure

Enforcement of HIPAA's Privacy Rule - by OCR, DOJ, and the Courts
• The number and types of complaints about Privacy Rule violations that are being filed with OCR.
• DOJ's criminal enforcement approach for the Privacy Rule, including liability for non-covered entities, and the criminal HIPAA sanctions that have been imposed.
• Holdings and implications of various cases