Healthcare: Events: Health Courts, Administrative Compensation & Patient Safety: Research, Policy & Practice

Health Courts, Administrative Compensation & Patient Safety: Research, Policy & Practice

November 5, 2007

Location: Washington, DC

The fourth forum in our series of national events sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation provided information about: (1) the negligence standard and medical error causation; (2) the potential patient safety benefits to be gained from shifting to an “avoidability” standard for compensating medical injuries; (3) a variety of state reform initiatives; and (4) non-legislative approaches to crafting an administrative compensation system. 

In particular, the forum focused on recent research conducted by a team at the Harvard School of Public Health (many of whom are notable for their previous work on medical liability, such as on The Project on Medical Liability in Pennsylvania funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts). The accompanying research paper, "Policy Experimentation with Administrative Compensation for Medical Injury: Issues under State Constitutional Law," is being published this winter in the Harvard Journal on Legislation. Speakers and respondents included academics and representatives from consumer groups and health care quality and provider organizations.

SPEAKER BIOS: For more information about the forum participants, click here.

AGENDA: For a copy of the agenda, click here.

WEBCAST: You can view the webcast in two parts:

» Part 1: Professor Michelle Mello and Dr. Allen Kachalia

» Part 2: Panel on "State Reform Perspectives" and Panel on "Non-Legislative Approaches: The Importance of Consent"   

Or please choose a link below to view an individual segment.

Speakers:

Professor Michelle Mello, Associate Professor of Health Policy and Law, Harvard School of Public Health
    » Watch Professor Mello's presentation
    » View Professor Mello's slides

Dr. Allen Kachalia, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
    » Watch Dr. Kachalia's presentation
    » View Dr. Kachalia's slides

Panel on State Reform Perspectives:
    » View the panel discussion on State Reform Perspectives

Fran Cadez, Wyoming Healthcare Commission, Lubnau Bailey PC

Judy Ham, Executive Director, Cerebral Palsy of Colorado

Delegate Chris Shank, Maryland State General Assembly 

Michael Strazzella, The Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP)

Martin Hatlie, Moderator, Partnership for Patient Safety/p4ps
     » Read an article from p4ps about Medical Liability

Panel on Non-Legislative Approaches: The Importance of Consent
    » Watch the panel discussion on Non-Legislative Approaches

Dr. Jack Glode, Wyoming Healthcare Commission

Keith Maurer, National Arbitration Forum

Eugene Rosov, Obstetricians & Gynecologists Risk Retention Group of America, Inc.

Jim Wootton, Mayer Brown LLP

Jackson Williams, Moderator, Senior Policy Advisor, AARP Public Policy Institute

For more information about the event, please contact Brynna Pietz at bpietz@cgood.org.