Legalese vs. Best Practices in Healthcare

About this episode

Terry discusses best practices in healthcare with attorney Colin Callahan, focusing on compliance and patient safety.

Healthcare attorneys can encourage physicians to adopt best practices without defaulting to legal statutes by focusing on clinical quality, risk management, efficiency, and peer-benchmarking. By rephrasing compliance as "patient safety" or "practice efficiency," attorneys can make best practices more palatable than just regulatory mandates. Terry discusses this an more with fellow NSCHBC member and PA Healthcare Attorney Colin Callahan on today’s episode of the NSCHBC Edge Podcast.

People in this episode

Host: Terry

Guest: Colin Callahan

Topics covered

• best practices
• healthcare law
• patient safety
• risk management
• clinical quality

Keywords

• healthcare
• best practices
• legal statutes
• risk management
• peer-benchmarking

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: NSCHBC, PA Healthcare Attorney

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