Medical Malpractice Issues for Telehealth and Technology

If you think back 10-15 years, the health system of today is quite different than the one we knew then.  There’s been an explosion of technology implemented in healthcare.  Plus, thanks to COVID, telehealth has exploded too.  As is usually, the case, the laws around these technologies haven’t really kept up with the pace of change.  This can be seen in the laws around medical malpractice.

As I search to better understand medical malpractice laws, I had a chance to sit down with Stephan Landsman, Co-Author of “Closing Death’s Door: Legal Innovations to End the Epidemic of Healthcare Harm,” to dive into how technology has changed the medical malpractice landscape.  He shares how telehealth has created new legal and medical malpractice challenges.

Along with technology’s role in medical malpractice, I talk with Landsman about whether medical malpractice laws prevent medical harm or not.  Obviously, this is something you can read in detail in his book, but he gives a great cliff notes version of where medical malpractice has fallen short when it comes to preventing medical harm.

We also have a lively discussion about the culture of medicine and we discuss a really amazing example from the book of patients not being trusted to do at home pregnancy tests.  That experience sounds eerily similar to how many care providers feel about sharing health data with patients as required by the information blocking provisions.  It’s almost like groundhog day all over again.

Finally, I ask Landsman to share what he thinks the path looks like to “End the Epidemic of Medical Harm.”  What is really needed and what can move us forward?  Check out the interview below to learn more.

Learn more about Stephan Landsman’s book, “Closing Death’s Door: Legal Innovations to End the Epidemic of Healthcare Harm.”

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About the author

John Lynn

John Lynn is the Founder of HealthcareScene.com, a network of leading Healthcare IT resources. The flagship blog, Healthcare IT Today, contains over 13,000 articles with over half of the articles written by John. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 20 million times.

John manages Healthcare IT Central, the leading career Health IT job board. He also organizes the first of its kind conference and community focused on healthcare marketing, Healthcare and IT Marketing Conference, and a healthcare IT conference, EXPO.health, focused on practical healthcare IT innovation. John is an advisor to multiple healthcare IT companies. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can be found on Twitter: @techguy.

   

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