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Copiscope-Colorado

Colorado's newsletter focused on risk management guidelines and articles that offer useful, practical insight for our insured customers.

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2019 Archive

Copiscope-Colorado Jan. 2019 (Issue 205)

Missed Diagnosis in Infections• Specialty Focus: Emergency Medicine• COPIC Resources• Tipping Point of Sexual Harassment• COPIC HR Hotline• Instructor-Led Seminars
2018 Archive

Copiscope-Colorado Oct. 2018 (Issue 204)

Risk Management Ultrasonogram•3Rs Program•What's Wrong with this Picture•COPIC Points Discount•Making Urgent Care Safer for Patients

Copiscope-Colorado Jul. 2018 (Issue 203)

New Opioid Legislation • DORA Opioid Prescribing Policy • Prescription Drug Monitoring Program • Top Patient Safety Concerns for 2018 • COPIC Partners with Boomtown

Copiscope-Colorado Apr. 2018 (Issue 202)

Delegating to and Supervising PAs • Attorney Requests for Medical Records • Healing the Healer

Copiscope-Colorado 1st Quarter 2018 (Issue 201)

Curbside Consults • Physician Defense Mistakes • After Hours Care/Coverage • Public Disclosure of Direct Pay Charges
2017 Archive

Copiscope-Colorado Nov. 2017 (Issue 200)

Specialty Focus: Orthopedic Surgery • Advance Directives • Nonspine Orthopedic Procedures in Anesthesia Claims • Copy/Paste Danger in EHRs

Copiscope-Colorado Sept. 2017 (Issue 199)

Specialty Focus: Medication Errors • Risks in Laproscopic Surgery • Liability with Patient Handoffs • Reporting Domestic Violence

Copiscope-Colorado Jul. 2017 (Issue 198)

Specialty Focus: Radiology • Updates: Delegating Medical Services to Medical Assistants • Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for 2017 (Part 2)

Copiscope-Colorado May 2017 (Issue 197)

Specialty Focus: General Surgery • CO Physician License Renewal • Responding to a Medical Board Complaint • Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for 2017 (Part 1)

Copiscope-Colorado Mar. 2017 (Issue 196)

Specialty Focus: OB/GYN • Colorado End-of-Life Options Act • Posting/Providing Language Interpretation Services for Patients

Copiscope-Colorado Jan. 2017 (Issue 195)

Specialty Focus: Internal/Family Medicine • CMB Rule 400: PA Supervision • Photography, Recording, and Privacy • Improving 5 Dimensions of the Diagnostic Process
2016 Archive

Copiscope-Colorado Nov. 2016 (Issue 194)

Minors and Risk • Empathy and Litigation • Lessons Learned in Telluride • Physicians Prone to Liability Claims

Copiscope-Colorado Sept. 2016 (Issue 193)

Patient Access to Medical Records • Telemedicine Services Treating Skin Disease • Legal Protections—Emergency and Volunteer Circumstances

Copiscope-Colorado Jul. 2016 (Issue 192)

Building Resilience • Warning for Fluoroquinolones • The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of EHRs • Top Ten Patient Safety Issues For 2016

Copiscope-Colorado May 2016 (Issue 191)

Drug Screening and Consent in the Perinatal Setting • The Opioid Epidemic: It’s Still a Problem

Copiscope-Colorado Mar. 2016 (Issue 190)

Perioperative Medication Errors • Communication Errors in Surgery

Copiscope-Colorado Jan. 2016 (Issue 189)

Practice Quality Reviews • Improving Diagnosis in Health Care • Protecting a Physician’s Online Reputation • Telehealth Update
2015 Archive

Copiscope-Colorado Nov. 2015 (Issue 188)

Working with PAs • Cyber Liability Report • Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns (Part 2) • Patients Recording Interactions with Physicians

Copiscope-Colorado Sept. 2015 (Issue 187)

Suicide and Patients • Thoughts on Patient Safety from Telluride • Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns (Part 1) • Ensuring Tdap in Every Pregnancy

Copiscope-Colorado Jul. 2015 (Issue 186)

Learning from Surgical Claims • Top 10 Hard-to-Diagnose Diseases • HIPAA–Key Areas Where Problems Occur

Copiscope-Colorado May 2015 (Issue 185)

Treating Employees, Family Members, and Yourself • Overlooked Diagnostic Tests • Addressing Opioid Overdoses: Naloxone • Physician Wellness Kit

Copiscope-Colorado Mar. 2015 (Issue 184)

Against Medical Advice • Lessons Learned on Neurological Injury • PDMP Updates

Copiscope-Colorado Jan. 2015 (Issue 183)

Recognition & Rescue • Top Ten Tips to Improve Handoffs • Computer Time Versus Patient Time • Updates to CMB Rule 400: Supervising PAs • FDA Update: Laparoscopic Power Morcellators
2014 Archive

Copiscope-Colorado Nov. 2014 (Issue 182)

Pain Management with Opioids • New Colorado DORA “Policy for Prescribing and Dispensing Opioids” • Telemedicine & Liability Issues • COPIC Legal Defense

Copiscope-Colorado Sept. 2014 (Issue 181)

Difficult Deliveries • Power Morcellation in Gynecologic Surgery • Patient Safety Initiatives Reduce Claims • Updated Neonatal Encephalopathy Report • New PDMP Registration Requirements

Copiscope-Colorado Jul. 2014 (Issue 180)

Anchoring Bias • Amended Colorado Rule 45—Subpoenas & Patient Information • HHS Tool to Assess HIPAA Security Risks • CDPHE Electronic Death Registration System • COPIC Receives ACCME Accreditation

Copiscope-Colorado May 2014 (Issue 179)

Closing the Loop • Choosing Wisely—Top 5 Pain Interventions to Avoid • Patient Safety—Impact on Medical Practices • The Nonadherent Patient

Copiscope-Colorado Mar. 2014 (Issue 178)

Communication & Resolution Programs • Importance of an Accurate Problem List • Physician Payments Sunshine Act • Professional Review—Reporting Requirements • Surgical Checklists and Timeouts

Copiscope-Colorado Jan. 2014 (Issue 177)

Doctors Criticizing Other Doctors • Talking with Patients About Other Clinicians’ Errors • High-Alert Medications List from ISMP • Informed Consent in the Office • Chronic Pain Management Toolkit
2013 Archive

Copiscope-Colorado Nov. 2013 (Issue 176)

Preparing for CMS Audits of EHR Incentive Programs • Failure to Rescue • Fear of Lawsuits Push Defensive Medicine • FDA: Safety Labeling Changes and Postmarket Study Requirements for Opioids

Copiscope-Colorado Sept. 2013 (Issue 175)

CO Medical Board Rule 800 • Diagnostic Errors • Conflict in the Physician-Patient Relationship

Copiscope-Colorado Jul. 2013 (Issue 174)

Ten Tips to Help Promote Patient Safety • Patient Privacy and Social Media • Pitfalls in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Skin Cancer • Electronic Communications in Health Care

Copiscope-Colorado May 2013 (Issue 173)

Informed Consent: What Patients Need to Know • Surgical Provider Preventable Conditions • Prescription Drug Abuse Resources • Physicians Spend Nearly 11% of Their Careers with an Open, Unresolved Claim

Copiscope-Colorado Mar. 2013 (Issue 172)

Association Between EHR Use and Medical Liability Claims • Legal Protections: Care Under Emergency & Volunteer Circumstances • Childbirth Complications • Risk Management Guidelines for Telephone Encounters • Caring for Breast Cancer Survivors

Copiscope-Colorado Jan. 2013 (Issue 171)

Top Ten Tips for Pain Medication • FDA-Approved Risk Management Education on Long-Term Opioids • Syncope—Key Factors to Consider • Resurgence of Pertussis in Colorado
2012 Archive

Copiscope-Colorado Nov. 2012 (Issue 170)

Coordination of Care • Necessity of Common Medical Tests and Procedures • New Requirements for Professional Review

Copiscope-Colorado Sept. 2012 (Issue 169)

Medications of Controversy • Terminating a Physician-Patient Relationship • Recommended Actions for Unsolicited Diagnostic Tests • COPIC Guide to Incident Reporting

Copiscope-Colorado Jul. 2012 (Issue 168)

Impaired and Unsafe Drivers: Duty to Report to the DMV • Treating Youth Athletes’ Concussions • COPIC Revises “Against Medical Advice” Sample Form • Impact of Defensive Medicine

Copiscope-Colorado May 2012 (Issue 167)

12 Questions for PAs and APNs • Physician On-Call Obligations: EMTALA • Barriers to the Use of Perioperative Briefings and Checklists

Copiscope-Colorado Mar. 2012 (Issue 166)

COPIC’s Level One Guidelines • Inadequate Communication Between Primary Care and Specialists • Responding to a CMB Inquiry Letter • Reducing Infection in Outpatient Settings

Copiscope-Colorado Jan. 2012 (Issue 165)

Risk Management for Ultrasonography During Pregnancies • FAQs About Importing Prescription Drugs • Drug Alerts from HCNN • Conservative Prescribing to Reduce Medication Errors
2011 Archive

Copiscope-Colorado Nov. 2011 (Issue 164)

The Colorado Prescription Drug Monitoring Program • Education Recommendations about Working with PAs and APNs • Closed 3Rs Cases 360 Review Process • What are Your Chances of Being Sued?

Copiscope-Colorado Sept. 2011 (Issue 163)

Preventing Surgical Fires • New Disclosure Requirements for Controlled • Curbside Consultations • Educating Physicians in Training About Medical Legal Issues

Copiscope-Colorado Jul. 2011 (Issue 162)

Risk Issues in Infectious Disease • Social Networking and Medicine • AMA Policy: Professionalism in The Use Of Social Media • Your Most Difficult Patient • How To Positively Emerge From a Lawsuit

Copiscope-Colorado May 2011 (Issue 161)

10 Strategies for Reducing Medication Errors • Capnography for Moderate Sedations: New Standards for Basic Anesthesia Monitoring • Making Urgent Care Safer • Urgent Care Claims

Copiscope-Colorado Mar. 2011 (Issue 160)

10 Ways to Avoid Litigation • Importing Devices from Outside the U.S. • Updated Medical E-Risk Considerations • Undertaking TOLCA • Informed Consent and Documentation • How Cognitive Errors Affect Diagnosis

Copiscope-Colorado Jan. 2011 (Issue 159)

10 Always Events for Communication • The Colorado Medical Marijuana Registry • Reminder to Update Skolnik Profiles

COPIC News

Our newsletter to highlight issues related to our insureds and update you on the latest business news about COPIC.

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2019 Archive

COPIC News-1st Quarter 2019 (Issue 178)

New Role as CEO • Memoriam: K. Mason Howard, MD • COPIC Receives the Endorsement of Four Additional State Medical Associations •
2018 Archive

COPIC News-4th Quarter 2018 (Issue 177)

• A Fond Farewell: Lessons Learned as COPIC's CEO • 2019 Premium Rates to Remain Stable • COPIC Welcomes New Board Members • COPIC Medical Foundation Recent Grant Funding

COPIC News-3rd Quarter 2018 (Issue 176)

Tail Coverage: What You Need to Know • Increased Limits on Cyber Liability & Covered Proceedings Coverage • COPIC Partners with Boomtown • Website Resource • The Legislative Landscape • Colorado Health Professional Check • Practice Admin Meetings • HR Risky Practices Seminar • COPIC Points Increase of Discount

COPIC News 2nd Quarter 2018 (Issue 175)

Dr. Zarlengo Named Incoming CEO • Updated Website • CNE Accreditation • Available Publications • Recent Grant Funding

COPIC News 1st Quarter 2018 (Issue 174)

New Year and New Look • COPIC Medical Foundation • Engagement with Partner Organizations • Role of Physicians as Board Members/Faculty Consultants

Copiscope-General

COPIC's newsletter (for states outside of Colorado) that focuses on risk management guidelines with articles that offer useful, practical insight. Issues prior to 2018 were "Nebraska Copiscope" editions.

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2018 Archive

Copiscope-General December 2018 (Issue 204-1)

Urgent Care: Managing Patient Expectations • Risk Management with Ultrasonograms • What's Wrong with this Picture? • Back to Basics: The 3Rs Program

Copiscope-General Sept. 2018 (Issue 203-1)

Making Urgent Care Safer for Patients • Top Patient Safety Concerns • What's Wrong with this Picture?

Copiscope-General June 2018 (Issue 202-1)

Best Practices: PAs and NPs • Provider/Patient Perceptions of Communication-and-Resolution Programs • Attorney Requests for Medical Records

Copiscope-General 1st Quarter 2018 (Issue 201-1)

Curbside Consults • Physician Defense Mistakes • Physician Review Sites
2017 Archive

Copiscope-General Dec. 2017 (Issue 84)

Specialty Focus: Orthopedic Surgery • Nonspine Orthopedic Procedures in Anesthesia Claims • Copy/Paste Danger in EHRs

Copiscope-General Oct. 2017 (Issue 83)

Specialty Focus: Medication Errors • Risks in Laproscopic Surgery • Liability with Patient Handoffs

Copiscope-General Aug. 2017 (Issue 82)

Specialty Focus: Radiology • Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for 2017 (Part 2) • Documentation Do’s and Don’ts

Copiscope-General Jun. 2017 (Issue 81)

Specialty Focus: General Surgery • Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for 2017 (Part 1) • Patients Recording Encounters

Copiscope-General Apr. 2017 (Issue 80)

Specialty Focus: OB/GYN • Posting/Providing Language Interpretation Services for Patients • Empathy and Litigation

Copiscope-General Feb. 2017 (Issue 79)

Specialty Focus: Internal/Family Medicine • Photography, Recording, and Privacy • Improving 5 Dimensions of the Diagnostic Process
2016 Archive

Copiscope-General Dec. 2016 (Issue 78)

Minors and Risk • Physicians Prone to Liability Claims • Lessons Learned in Telluride

Copiscope-General Oct. 2016 (Issue 77)

Patient Access to Medical Records • The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of EHRs

Copiscope-General Aug. 2016 (Issue 76)

Building Resilience • Warning for Fluoroquinolones • Top Ten Patient Safety Issues For 2016

Copiscope-General Jun. 2016 (Issue 75)

The Opioid Epidemic: It’s Still a Problem • Patients Recording Interactions with Physicians • Power Morcellation in Gynecological Surgery

Copiscope-General Apr. 2016 (Issue 74)

Perioperative Medication Errors • Communication Errors in Surgery

Copiscope-General Feb. 2016 (Issue 73)

Practice Quality Reviews • Improving Diagnosis in Health Care • Protecting a Physician’s Online Reputation
2015 Archive

Copiscope-General Dec. 2015 (Issue 72)

Working with PAs • Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns (Part 2) • Cyber Liability Report

Copiscope-General Oct. 2015 (Issue 71)

Suicide and Patients • Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns (Part 1) • COPIC Report on Data Breaches

Copiscope-General Aug. 2015 (Issue 70)

Learning from Surgical Claims • Top 10 Hard-to-Diagnose Diseases • HIPAA–Key Areas Where Problems Occur

Copiscope-General Jun. 2015 (Issue 69)

Treating Employees, Family Members, and Yourself • Overlooked Diagnostic Tests • Physician Wellness Kit

Copiscope-General Apr. 2015 (Issue 68)

Against Medical Advice • Telemedicine and Liability Issues

Copiscope-General Feb. 2015 (Issue 67)

Recognition & Rescue • Top Ten Tips to Improve Handoffs • Computer Time Versus Patient Time • FDA Update: Laparoscopic Power Morcellators
2014 Archive

Copiscope-General Dec. 2014 (Issue 66)

Pain Management with Opioids • COPIC Legal Defense • Patient Safety Initiatives Reduce Claims

Copiscope-General Oct. 2014 (Issue 65)

Difficult Deliveries • Power Morcellation in Gynecologic Surgery • Updated Neonatal Encephalopathy Report

Copiscope-General Aug. 2014 (Issue 64)

Anchoring Bias • HHS Tool to Assess HIPAA Security Risks • Patient Safety—Impact on Medical Practices • COPIC Receives ACCME Accreditation

Copiscope-General Jun. 2014 (Issue 63)

Closing the Loop • Choosing Wisely—Top 5 Pain Interventions to Avoid • The Nonadherent Patient

Copiscope-General Apr. 2014 (Issue 62)

Communication & Resolution Programs • Importance of an Accurate Problem List • Surgical Checklists and Timeouts

Copiscope-General Feb. 2014 (Issue 61)

Doctors Criticizing Other Doctors • Talking with Patients About Other Clinicians’ Errors • High-Alert Medications List from ISMP • Chronic Pain Management Toolkit
2013 Archive

Copiscope-General Dec. 2013 (Issue 60)

Preparing for CMS Audits of EHR Incentive Programs • Failure to Rescue • Fear of Lawsuits Push Defensive Medicine

Copiscope-General Oct. 2013 (Issue 59)

Diagnostic Errors • Risk Management Guidelines for Telephone Encounters • Conflict in the Physician-Patient Relationship

Copiscope-General Aug. 2013 (Issue 58)

Ten Tips to Help Promote Patient Safety • Patient Privacy and Social Media • Pitfalls in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Skin Cancer

Copiscope-General Jun. 2013 (Issue 57)

Informed Consent: What Patients Need to Know • Physicians Spend Nearly 11% of Their Careers with an Open, Unresolved Claim • Surgical Provider Preventable Conditions

Copiscope-General Apr. 2013 (Issue 56)

Association Between EHR Use and Medical Liability Claims • Legal Protections: Care Under Emergency & Volunteer Circumstances • Caring for Breast Cancer Survivors • Childbirth Complications • Drug Alerts from PDR Network

Copiscope-General Feb. 2013 (Issue 55)

Top Ten Tips for Pain Medication • FDA-Approved Risk Management Education on Long-Term Opioids • Resurgence of Pertussis
2012 Archive

Copiscope-General Dec. 2012 (Issue 54)

Coordination of Care • Necessity of Common Medical Tests and Procedures

Copiscope-General Oct. 2012 (Issue 53)

COPIC Guide to Incident Reporting • Medications of Controversy • Recommended Actions for Unsolicited Diagnostic Tests

Copiscope-General Aug. 2012 (Issue 52)

Impaired and Unsafe Drivers: Duty to Report to the DMV • Treating Youth Athletes’ Concussions • Impact of Defensive Medicine

Copiscope-General Jun. 2012 (Issue 51)

Physician On-Call Obligations: EMTALA • Barriers to the Use of Perioperative Briefings and Checklists • COPIC Revises “Against Medical Advice” Sample Form

Copiscope-General Apr. 2012 (Issue 50)

COPIC’s Level One Guidelines • Inadequate Communication Between Primary Care and Specialists • Reducing Infection in Outpatient Settings

Copiscope-General Feb. 2012 (Issue 49)

FAQs About Importing Prescription Drugs • Risk Management for Ultrasonography During Pregnancies • Conservative Prescribing to Reduce Medication Errors • Improving Radiologist and Clinician Communication
2011 Archive

Copiscope-General Dec. 2011 (Issue 48)

FAQs Regarding Occurrence Reporting • “Red Flags”/ Words of Caution • Giving Advice Over the Telephone in the ED • Drug Alerts from HCNN • Terminating a Physician-Patient Relationship

Copiscope-General Oct. 2011 (Issue 47)

Preventing Surgical Fires • Curbside Consultations • Educating Physicians in Training About Medical Legal Issues • Chances of Being Sued

Copiscope-General Aug. 2011 (Issue 46)

Risk Issues in Infectious Disease • Social Networking and Medicine • AMA Policy: Professionalism in the Use of Social Media • Your Most Difficult Patient • How to Positively Emerge from a Lawsuit

Copiscope-General Jun. 2011 (Issue 45)

10 Strategies for Reducing Medication Errors • Capnography for Moderate Sedations: New Standards for Basic Anesthesia Monitoring • Making Urgent Care Safer • Urgent Care Claims

Copiscope-General Apr. 2011 (Issue 44)

10 Ways to Avoid Litigation • Importing Devices from Outside the U.S. • Updated Medical E-Risk Considerations • Undertaking TOLCA • How Cognitive Errors Affect Diagnosis

Copiscope-General Feb. 2011 (Issue 43)

10 Ways to Improve Communication • Review of Risk Management Procedures • Failure to Diagnose with Multiple Providers • After Hours Coverage

3Rs Newsletter

COPIC's newsletter focused on its 3Rs (Recognize, Respond and Resolve) Program and how insured customers can utilize this program when needed.

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2017 Archive

3Rs Newsletter Nov/Dec 2017

The role of empathy in managing an unexpected outcome

3Rs Newsletter May/June 2017

Does my case qualify for the 3Rs Program?
2016 Archive

3Rs Newsletter May/June 2016

3Rs: Not just about reimbursement
2015 Archive

3Rs Newsletter Nov/Dec 2015

“What do you mean I’m not signed up for the 3Rs program?”

3Rs Newsletter May/June 2015

The 3Rs road to resolution
2014 Archive

3Rs Newsletter Nov/Dec 2014

Allied health professionals and the 3Rs Program

3Rs Newsletter May/June 2014

The 3Rs Program provides support for physicians
2013 Archive

3Rs Newsletter Nov/Dec 2013

3Rs cases involving recognized complications

3Rs Newsletter May/June 2013

Key aspects of the 3Rs Program
2012 Archive

3Rs Newsletter Nov/Dec 2012

Managing expectations and the 3Rs Program

3Rs Newsletter May/June 2012

Maintaining communication with patients after an unexpected outcome
2011 Archive

3Rs Newsletter Nov/Dec 2011

Case studies: Connecting 3Rs to patient safety

3Rs Newsletter May/June 2011

Case studies: Focus on disclosure

Financial Focus

COPIC Financial Service Group's newsletter that covers timely topics about business and personal insurance as well as financial planning and services.

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