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Three and a half minutes. Do you have 3.5 minutes to spare? If you do, watch the following video from David Cash, JD, LLM, our Assistant Vice President of Risk Management.  He’ll give you six pointers on simple things you can do now to improve the quality of the psychiatric care you provide your patients while making it much less likely that you will be sued successfully for th ...

We’re a few days into 2013 and you’ve probably been able to keep your New Year’s resolutions so far. But if you haven’t, or if you haven’t made any and you need some suggestions, you’ve come to the right place. Here are PRMS’ recommendations for 2013 resolutions… 1. I will have an understanding of what is required by the HIPAA regulations, such as the Privacy Rule and the Secur ...

On behalf of everyone at PRMS, best wishes for a new year of happiness and good health. Throughout the year, it has been our privilege to work with you.   We look forward to continuing to serve you. In lieu of holiday cards and gifts, we will make a donation to a charitable organization. This year we have again chosen the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)  http://www.n ...

The last half of December can be a slow time in medical offices, even for psychiatrists. May I suggest that if you have some free time over the next few weeks, you do some homework? It’s not hard, and there’s just a simple self-test.  But what you learn may pay huge dividends down the road.  The assignment: read your professional liability insurance policy! Once you’ve read it, ...

“That could never happen here…” Every human being since the beginning of time has, at least once, reflected on another human’s foibles and said, “Well I never would have done that,” or “That could never happen here.” Sometimes the wording is, “No one I know would ever do that.” The problem is that even if we have only a shard of cold insight into our hearts, we know how close w ...

Our message this week is to simply let you know how grateful every employee of PRMS is for your long-time support of our business. We hope each of you have a safe and enjoyable Thanksgiving holiday. ...

Right after Labor Day each year, “meeting season” starts. From early September through mid-November, it seems every psychiatric organization holds a meeting; our goal is to attend as many of them as possible. In the past nine weeks, PRMS staff attended more than 50 meetings throughout the country.  These included APA district branch meetings, US Psychiatric Congress, Northern C ...

We compiled three documents related to child and adolescent psychiatry to distribute to our customers at the AACAP meeting in San Francisco: (1) a resource list of articles and websites on Youth Violence and Homicidal and Suicidal Behavior; (2) a list of the top 50 professional liability points for child and adolescent psychiatrists, and (3) a collection of our own risk managem ...

People are attracted to medicine as a career for myriad reasons, but for most, a key motivator is a desire to help alleviate the suffering of others. At a time when the great suffering of the residents of northeast corridor is evident to all, many doctors are thinking about how they can help. Alas, the legal strictures of modern life force us to advise doctors to control the in ...

Every physician knows the three steps of experiential education: first you watch over someone’s shoulder, then you get to try it yourself, and finally you demonstrate mastery by teaching the next group of neophytes. This could well be the earliest form of education, since at its most basic, it doesn’t require anything to be written down nor does it even require the teacher and ...