New Opioid Legislation • DORA Opioid Prescribing Policy • Prescription Drug Monitoring Program • Top Patient Safety Concerns for 2018 • COPIC Partners with Boomtown
Specialty Focus: General Surgery • CO Physician License Renewal • Responding to a Medical Board Complaint • Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for 2017 (Part 1)
Specialty Focus: Internal/Family Medicine • CMB Rule 400: PA Supervision • Photography, Recording, and Privacy • Improving 5 Dimensions of the Diagnostic Process
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
Pain Management with Opioids • New Colorado DORA “Policy for Prescribing and Dispensing Opioids” • Telemedicine & Liability Issues • COPIC Legal Defense
Communication & Resolution Programs • Importance of an Accurate Problem List • Physician Payments Sunshine Act • Professional Review—Reporting Requirements • Surgical Checklists and Timeouts
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
COPIC’s Level One Guidelines • Inadequate Communication Between Primary Care and Specialists • Responding to a CMB Inquiry Letter • Reducing Infection in Outpatient Settings
Risk Management for Ultrasonography During Pregnancies • FAQs About Importing Prescription Drugs • Drug Alerts from HCNN • Conservative Prescribing to Reduce Medication Errors
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?
Preventing Surgical Fires • New Disclosure Requirements for Controlled • Curbside Consultations • Educating Physicians in Training About Medical Legal Issues
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
10 Strategies for Reducing Medication Errors • Capnography for Moderate Sedations: New Standards for Basic Anesthesia Monitoring • Making Urgent Care Safer • Urgent Care Claims
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
