What is the number one stumbling block within hospitals to improving patient safety and reducing risk?
In most hospitals, there is a communication gap between the clinical staff and legal staff. Medical errors occur on the clinical side, and the legal staff deals with the litigation. RMF Strategies, through its database systems and risk management programs builds a bridge between these two departments that is critical if best practices designed to reduce malpractice exposure and medical errors are to be established and followed. Right now, the knowledge gained from malpractice litigation is not being passed on to and followed-through with medical staff in hospitals, so that the risk of committing the same errors continue to be high.
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