The Informed Practice — Communicating Risk
Communicating Medical Risk to Patients By Thomas J. Bryant, ARM President, Physicians Insurance I can’t think of any form of patient-physician communication more important — and difficult — to clearly communicate than the conveyance of medical risk. A linchpin of shared decision-making and evidence-based medicine, risk communication is considered the […]
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The Informed Practice — Diagnostic Errors
December 18, 2019 How Can Practices Mitigate the Most Common Diagnostic Errors that Lead to Malpractice Claims Against Physicians? By Thomas J. Bryant, ARM President, Physicians Insurance Missed diagnosis, delayed diagnosis, and wrong diagnosis comprise the most common diagnostic error categories, and diagnostic errors in general comprise the most common […]
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The Informed Practice — Telemedicine
October 30, 2019 Telemedicine and Your Practice: What Do You Need to Know? By Thomas J. Bryant, ARM President, Physicians Insurance Virtual medicine is booming in popularity. It’s estimated that demand for interactive audio and video health technology, otherwise known as “telemedicine” will increase by 18 percent annually nationwide. These […]
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Physicians Insurance News
June 12, 2019 Physicians Insurance Philanthropy Surpasses the One-Million-Dollar Mark Physicians Insurance (PI) charitable giving reaches all the way back to our inception in the 1990s, and since 2005 alone, our commitment to physician-centric causes has surpassed one million dollars. As we embark on our second quarter century, our Board […]
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Physicians Insurance News
April 24, 2019 Update from Tom Bryant, President of Physicians Insurance Hello everyone, Welcome to our new Physicians Insurance blog. In the coming months, we hope to engage you with an approach that blends industry-related articles, resources, news, and insurance opinion that physicians and administrators will find of interest. Today, […]
Read MoreCyber Security Risk
As technology has become a widespread necessity of business, so has the need for both risk management and insurance solutions to mitigate technology breaches and hacker attacks. Hacker attacks have been increasing in both frequency and severity and can be devastating to physician practices as can accidental technology breaches, which can lead to identity theft and fraud impacting the patients and the practice entity.
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