Using medical malpractice claims data to improve healthcare quality, safety & cost
Description
When a med mal claim emerges from patient injury, we may debate who’s liable but we can agree something undesirable happened. Mark Reynolds leads CRICO, the Risk Management Foundation of the Harvard Medical Institutions, a captive insurance program. CRICO, in addition to serving its members’ medical professional liability insurance and other needs, also provides a comparative database with 30% of U.S. MPL claims. Reynolds shares insights from this 30+ year dataset of clinical and financial data which CRICO uses to identify & propagate root cause interventions. What insights do medical malpractice claims offer to improve the Mission & Margin of healthcare? These data are one of the richest insights into U.S. healthcare quality & safety.
United States
