It is important for all for hospitals, large group practices, and health care facilities to be up-to-date on social media.

Hopefully, medicine will look to other high risk industries with improved safety records and adopt best practices or rigorously enforce its own regulations to eliminate multiple distractions that plague OR physicians and staff.

It is important for hospitals and health systems to evaluate their own obstetrical risks.

If your medical group or hospital creates, maintains, receives, or transmits electronic protected health information (e-PHI), a risk analysis is a mandatory step towards HIPAA compliance.

Obstetrics is a high-risk specialty in which emergencies are, to some extent, inevitable. Giving providers the opportunity to “work out the kinks” through simulation exercises and mock drills, is one of the greatest gifts we can give our staff and our patients.