2012

A guest post by Melanie Smith, Senior Vice President, Client Relations It doesn’t take much. Maybe a quick note or a cheerful card. A colorful drawing by a child. A care package. No. Not much at all to reach out to our troops and to send a message of support their way. For almost a decade, PRMS has actively supported our troops serving in both Afghanistan and Iraq. This volunte ...

We invite you to join us October 22, 2012 in San Francisco, CA for our upcoming risk management seminar on Current Liability Issues in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Opportunities to Minimize Risk. ...

The title of this blog post is not one long typographical error. The first two are easy, but if the last two have you puzzled, consider attending the webinar we’re offering on September 28. For a hint of what the webinar will cover, please check out my colleague Dave Cash’s very brief video. Psychiatrists need to understand the increasing importance of REMS (no, it’s not just “ ...

Earlier this week our Marketing Manager here at PRMS asked me what I was going to write about for the first anniversary of the blog. I told her that I’d think about that in a few months when the anniversary came around. She then reminded me (and proved to me) that we rolled out the blog in September 2011. It has been a short year! So what will we write about in the coming year? ...

One of the unique benefits of purchasing professional liability insurance through PRMS is access to our extensive risk management services. We have always believed that providing information and resources that help psychiatrists provide better patient care is the best way to reduce exposure to liability. We like to highlight our expertise in risk management through the seminars ...

Alas, it’s election season. Every other TV commercial is stridently predicting the End of Life as We Know It (EOLAWKI) if Candidate X is elected instead of Candidate Y. Radio broadcasts are similarly plagued with outraged reminders that Candidate Z once brazenly spoke out of turn in kindergarten, according to a former classmate who remembers the day like it was yesterday and wh ...

No one is more pleasantly surprised than I am to see that a number of you have become regular readers of this blog. Up to this point, we at PRMS have chosen the topic of each post, based largely on what we think you may be interested in reading about.  We would, however, like to hear from you. What do you want us to write about?   Please send us your questions.  You can email m ...

Suicide is the precipitating factor in a large percentage of claims and suits filed against psychiatrists, regardless of where they work or where they purchase insurance.   When you provide several thousand psychiatrists with professional liability insurance, the aftermath of suicide becomes part of your professional life.  Most Americans, however, do not have familiarity with ...

A guest blog by Holly Taylor, RN, BSN, JD, Risk Manager Have you heard the term e-iatrogenesis? It was first used in a 2007 article to describe patient harm caused at least in part by the application of health information technology (HIT).[1] HIT includes such things as computer physician order entry, clinical decision support systems, electronic health records (EHRs), etc. Evi ...

A guest blog by Remy Palumbo, Senior Underwriter Many of us have a tendency to purchase insurance and then set aside our policy hoping to never need it.  Of course sometimes “life happens” and as a result, there are times when you’ll want to provide the underwriter of your medical professional liability insurance carrier with updates.  A few of these include: 1) When your maili ...