| Strategies for Protecting Patient Safety
Sponsored with the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics
Please Note: This course has already
been held.
Date: Friday, September 12, 2003
Location: Suffolk University Law School, 120 Tremont St., Boston, MA
Time: 08:30 AM - 05:00 PM
Schedule/Agenda
Registration Information
While breakthroughs in medicine and bioscience continue to fill both the front pages of newspapers and the evening news, the public is becoming increasingly aware of dramatic failures in patient safety. Tragedies seem to run in parallel course to advances in biomedicine.
Health care in the United States is not as safe as it should be. Medical errors account for thousands of lost lives and injuries each year. Many such deaths and injuries are preventable and result from the systemic failures or adopting the wrong plan of treatment. Along with deaths and injuries come losses in jobs, worker productivity, disruptions in family life and distrust of the health care system.
Coupled with human loss is the economic impact of medical error. Increases in hospital costs, repetition of diagnostic tests, counteractive therapies to correct medical wrongs, all have the effect of increasing direct costs and insurance premiums. Patients believe that they are protected. Apart from the dramatic cases reported in the news of mismatched organs and untested genetic therapies, consumers see licensure and clinical testing as providing a safety net without realizing that the cost to human life and economic loss to society are endemic to the present health care system. Unless corrected, acceptance of current levels of medical error will have the effect of lowering the standard of health care in the United States.
The purpose of this conference is to examine the causes of medical error in health care and to suggest system wide changes to break that cycle and to correct the damage done to health care in America by the decline in patient safety.
Who Should Attend:
- Physicians, Nurses, Pharmacists, Health Professionals, Clinical Research Directors
- Hospital Executives
- Managed care organization Executives, Directors and Counsel
- Public Health Officials
- Insurance Executives and Risk Managers
- Patients? Advocates and Counsel
- Accrediting Officials
Attend and Learn:
- Define the types of medical errors and other issues that affect patient safety
- Recognize the quality concerns and heightened risks that exist for vulnerable populations
- Identify the obstacles to addressing medical errors and quality in health care
- Examine the roles of various constituencies in developing a structure to enhance patient safety
American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics (ASLME) Where Multidisciplinary Education Improves Practice® ASLME is a non-profit multidisciplinary educational association whose mission is to provide high-quality scholarship, debate, and critical thought for the community of professionals at the intersection of law, medicine, health care, policy, and ethics. ASLME provides a dynamic forum for its members to engage in a valuable exchange of ideas from a wide range of perspectives. ASLME achieves this goal through two nationally acclaimed journals, the American Journal of Law & Medicine and the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, and by holding national symposia on topics of interest to its membership of attorneys, physicians, nurses, ethicists, allied health professionals, hospital administrators, risk managers, social workers, academics, students, and others. ASLME also engages in focused research topics, such as legal barriers to effective pain management, in an effort to improve health care practice and patient care.
Membership in ASLME includes subscriptions to both journals, discounted conference registration rates, and access to the Members Only section of our website www.aslme.org. For information on membership, contact ASLME by phone (617) 262-4990, email info@aslme.org or join through our secure server at www.aslme.org.
Please register for this conference through ASLME's website.
Continuing Education Credits, Continuing Medical Education Units, Accreditation
The American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the ACCME.
CME Credits
ASLME designates this educational activity for a maximum of 7.5 hours in category 1 credit toward the AMA Physician?s Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those credits that he/she actually spent in the activity.
Disclosure
To ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in this educational program, all faculty are required to disclose to the program audiences any association or apparent conflict(s) of interest that might be related to the content of their presentations.
Continuing Legal Education Units
ASLME is an accredited sponsor of continuing legal education programs according to the regulations of the states of AR, CA, GA, IN, IA, MS, MO, NV, NM, NC, PA, RI, SC, VA, WA and WV. Under the NYS CLE Board ?approved jurisdiction procedures?, ASLME is permitted to provide CLE credits in NY. ASLME routinely applies to various other states. Attorneys desiring accreditation must notify ASLME upon registering for the conference and must indicate for which state they are seeking credit.
In addition to those states, the Center for Advanced Legal Studies is an approved provider for CLE credit in VT, ME & NH.
Hotel Information A block of rooms is reserved at the Nine Zero Hotel, located at 90 Tremont Street, Boston, MA, which is walking distance to the law school. Rooms are available at a special rate of $169.00 plus tax per night. To make reservations, call the hotel directly at 617-772-5800 or 1-866-NINEZERO and reference Suffolk Law School, Advanced Legal Studies. Reservations at this special rate will be available until August 14, 2003. Reservations made after this date will be accepted on a space and rate availability basis.
| S C H E D U L E / A G E N D A |
| 8:30 |
Welcome and Introductions |
Professor Barry Brown, Co-director, Health Law, Concentration, Suffolk University Law School
Benjamin W. Moulton, JD, MPH, Executive Director, American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics
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| 8:45 |
Defining Terms: Medical Errors and Other Issues of Quality in Health Care Services and Organizations and How Providers Should React |
What Are The Types of Medical Errors Affecting Patient Safety and When and Where Do They Appear?
Matson Sewell, CPHRM, Certified Professional in Health, Care Risk Management, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Hospital
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| 9:15 |
Quality Concerns and Heightened Risk for Vulnerable Populations: The Terminally Ill, Low Income, People of Color, People Who Do Not Speak English, Children, Mentally and Physically Disabled, Women, Those in Urban or Rural Areas |
Professor Barry Brown, Suffolk University Law School
Troyen A. Brennan, MD, JD, MPH, Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Harvard School of Public Health
Brunilda Torres, LICSW, Director of Office of Minority Health, Department of Public Health, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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| 10:30 |
Barriers to Addressing Medical Errors and Quality in Health Care |
Professor Renée Landers, Suffolk University Law School
Albert G. Mulley, Jr., MD, Chief of General Medicine Division, Massachusetts General Hospital
Elizabeth N. Mulvey, Esq., Crowe & Mulvey, Boston
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| 12:00 |
Lunch Session: Toward a Definition of Excellence and Quality in |
Professor Barry R. Furrow, JD, Director, the Health Law Institute, Widener University School of Law
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| 1:15 |
What Are The Roles of Various Constituencies in Developing a Structure to Enhance Patient Safety? |
A Panel to Discuss the Roles of Providers, Public and Private Payers, Physicians, Hospitals, Accrediting Bodies, Educational Institutions, Health Care Workers and Public Authorities in the Culture of Patient Care
Dolores Mitchell, Executive Director of the Group Insurance Commission, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
James Conway, Chief Operating Officer, Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Paul Dreyer, Director, Health Care Quality, Department of Public Health, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Paula Griswold, Executive Director, Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Errors
Jeffrey Kang, MD, Senior Vice President of Clinical Programs and Policy, CIGNA Health Care
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| 2:45 |
Is Knowledge Power? Is It Possible To Develop An Infrastructure That Enhances Patient Safety and Protects Patient Confidentiality? |
Benjamin W. Moulton, JD, MPH, Executive Director, ASLME
David B. Brushwood, Associate Professor, University of Florida
Michelle M. Mello, PhD, JD, Harvard School of Public Health
Luke Sato, MD, VP & CIO, Risk Management Foundation
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| 4:00 |
Creating the Culture for Change: What Are The Respective Roles for Government, Self-regulatory Bodies, Educational Institutions, Providers, Professionals and the Traditional Legal System in Creating Interventions and Remedies? |
Barry R. Furrow, JD, Widener University School of Law
Susan Edgman-Levitan, PhD, Co-chair, National Patient Safety Council, Massachusetts General Hospital
Albert G. Mulley, Jr., MD, Chief of General Medicine Division, Massachusetts General Hospital
Charlotte S. Yeh, MD, Regional Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
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| 5:00 |
ASLME Annual Meeting |
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Friday, September 12, 2003 |
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Please register for this conference through ASLME's website.
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ASLME reserves the right to cancel/reschedule any program due to an insufficient number of registrants or other unforeseen circumstances. Registration cancellations must be received in writing on or before August 6, 2003 & are subject to a $50 processing fee. Refunds for this program will not be permitted after September 1, 2003. If you would like to send a substitute, call ASLME to arrange.
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Suffolk University Law School, 120 Tremont St., Boston, MA
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