Making a mistake in a hospital can lead to a medical malpractice claim that a doctor, nurse or hospital can be held liable for. Getting medical records computerized is the biggest step in reducing medical malpractice lawsuits.
At Midland Memorial Hospital in Texas, the need to replace obsolete paper records was a concern for the administrators of the hospital. A shortage of hospital funds prompted Chief Executive Russell Meyers used the same software used by the Veterans Health Administration to computerize their records and limit the number of hospital errors that lead to medical malpractice lawsuits.
Our firm’s San Diego personal injury lawyers support any new technology that makes record keeping more streamlined. The computerization of medical records can decrease the likelihood of misdiagnoses and wrong treatments that result to further personal injuries and high medical bills, in addition to medical malpractice claims.
When it is your body, you should want the doctors and nurses to get it right the first time and have equal access to a patient’s entire history of medical treatment.
In a study by the New England Journal of Medicine, 2 percent of the nation’s 5,000 non-VA hospitals have what could be counted as a computerized system. The main reason for not having this system to prevent medical malpractice claims is the cost of the systems, which range in price from $20 million to $100 million.
The advantages of electronic medical-record systems are widely advertised. In addition to gathering all medical histories in a single database, they also add bar-code systems reducing faults that lead to medical malpractice lawsuits. Midland Memorial Hospital has been using the system for 18 months since 2006, and medication errors and patient wrongful deaths have decreased.
Doctors making a mistakes can give way to a medical malpractice claim, and our firm’s personal injury lawyers in San Diego support any ideas that contribute to limiting those mistakes. Clients and patients trust their hospital and physicians to treat them without making errors that lead to more severe personal injury as a result of medical malpractice.
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About Michael PinesMichael Pines is a former insurance company attorney who specializes in car accident injury. While he was an insurance attorney, he learned from behind the scenes on how insurance companies work and how they decided to pay injured people. Now that he works against insurance companies, Michael's inside knowledge has resulted in significant benefits to his clients injured in car accidents.
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