Safety Net
The latest thinking from clinical and patient safety leaders from Harvard and around the world. A steady stream of interviews, news updates, legal guidance, effective practices, event highlights, and more.
- Update frequency
- every 68 days
- Average duration
- 11 minutes
- Episodes
- 15
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
How Depositions Make or Break a Medmal Defense
A discussion with two legal experts in the Harvard system about why depositions are critical in a medical malpractice lawsuit. Attorneys Lisa Wichter and Alex Terry use their courtroom experience to …
00:16:34 |
Fri 13 Jun 2025
New Medmal Report: Documentation Matters a Lot
In a review of Candello’s database of claims from malpractice insurers across the country, documentation failures emerged in one out of every five medical professional liability cases. They are also …
00:09:18 |
Tue 13 May 2025
Paying for Patient Safety: Solving an ROI Puzzle
Investing in patient safety programs not only helps patients, but also prevents large payouts for hospitals. And we can measure it.
00:12:30 |
Thu 06 Mar 2025
Teleradiology Leads Virtual Care Risk in New Study
Researchers looking for malpractice risks with virtual visits were surprised to learn that teleradiology was leading the way in professional liability claims over the past 12 years. Virtual office vi…
00:09:32 |
Fri 25 Oct 2024
New Study Finds Outpatient Adverse Events Common, Often Preventable
Some top-line conclusions are that outpatient harm was relatively common and often serious, with a call to action for intervention in outpatient errors. Drs. David Levine and David Bates of Brigham …
00:13:42 |
Fri 16 Aug 2024
Taking the Pulse of a Clinician’s Interpersonal Skills
Several Harvard-affiliated medical institutions are piloting a program to provide personalized feedback to physicians about the effect of their behavior and interactions on others. More than 675 indi…
00:08:47 |
Wed 29 May 2024
Bringing AI Into Medicine and Keeping It Safe
As artificial intelligence, or AI, takes off in the public sphere, what about medicine? The health care industry has been using some form of AI for decades, yet very recent advancements are upping th…
00:21:33 |
Wed 17 Apr 2024
A Net to Catch Patients at Risk of Falling Through the Cracks
The Harvard teaching hospitals and their affiliated institutions have banded together to tackle one of the most difficult and deadly challenges that face all health care providers: clinical tests and…
00:10:11 |
Wed 14 Feb 2024
Alert on Surgical Items Left Behind in Patients
In late 2023, the Academic Medical Center Patient Safety Organization issued an advisory noting a spike in reports of retained surgical items. A retained surgical item is patient safety lingo for wh…
00:08:59 |
Sat 30 Dec 2023
Higher Malpractice Risk with Advanced Practice Providers? Data Say Not Really
The topline data from Candello claims analysis do not show an increase in malpractice corresponding to the increased use of APPs. In fact, the claims rate may be declining, adjusting for practice pop…
00:08:50 |
Wed 29 Nov 2023
When a Doctor is Sued: Former Defendant Finds Her Voice
A former doctor defendant found meaning after the ordeal despite her lack of preparation or role models. Dr. Gita Pensa, an emergency medicine physician, made it her professional focus to help other …
00:18:24 |
Tue 12 Sep 2023
Boarding Critical Care Patients in EDs: New Guidance from Patient Safety Experts
The boarding of critical care patients in the emergency department is an increasing concern because ICUs are often also too full to take them.
00:08:51 |
Wed 16 Aug 2023
An Alert on Cyber Risk for Health Providers: No One is Safe
Healthcare providers are facing new threats from online attacks that require new strategies to limit liability, harm to patients, and revenue loss. In spring of 2023, the Academic Medical Center Pati…
00:07:52 |
Sat 10 Jun 2023
Copy and Paste in the Medical Record: A Top EHR Danger
When it comes to medical notes in patient charts, copying and pasting carries risks of confusion, patient harm, and liability for providers.
00:08:13 |
Wed 15 Feb 2023
Getting SMART About Harassment
Recent data from the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine show that sexual harassment and gender discrimination affect up to 50 percent of women medical students and more than 50 …
00:11:09 |
Fri 13 Jan 2023
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