Hospitals that contract with outside physician groups for essential services need to reexamine their relationships with those entities as a result of a recent decision by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in Reginelli v. Boggs, et al, No. 20 WAP 2016, 21 WAP 2016, 22 WAP 2016 and 23 WAP 2016 (Pa. March 27, 2018). In […]
Legal Implications of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) Documentation for Nurses: “Charting” a Better Course
As a medical malpractice defense attorney, I can attest to the important role that medical records play in defending medical negligence lawsuits, especially charting that is done by nurses. Considering that a patient has two years in which to file a medical malpractice lawsuit after the alleged wrongdoing, charting becomes extremely important to defending those […]