The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is the lead Federal agency charged with improving the safety and quality of America’s health care system. AHRQ develops the knowledge, tools, and data needed to improve the health care system and help Americans, health care professionals, and policymakers make informed health decisions.

Webinar Date: April 26, 2022

Moderator

• Caitlin Harrington. MD, JD

Speaker Panel

• Jeffrey N. Catalano, JD
• Jeff Goldenberg, MD
• Naomi Kirtner
• Jo Shapiro, MD, FACS

Webinar Date: March 18, 2021

Richard Boothman, JD, Michael Severyn, JD, and Kyle Sweet, JD, discuss important the role of attorneys in advancing the CRP field.

Presenters: Richard Boothman, JD, Michael Severyn, JD, and Kyle Sweet, JD

Learning Objectives: 

• Describe the role of attorneys who counsel and represent healthcare systems, healthcare providers, insurers, and patients and families in the CRP process
• Examine how the traditional role of an attorney following an unplanned clinical outcome might need to shift to better serve client’s interests and everyone involved in healthcare
• Learn about the goals, work stream, future opportunities, and ways to get involved with the Attorney Alliance

Webinar Date: March 17, 2022

Moderator

• Caitlin Harrington. MD, JD

Speakers

• Dr. Jeff Goldenberg and Naomi Kirtner, co-founders of Talia’s Voice

WEBINAR DATE: July 16, 2020

This webinar outlines the concerns and questions about the collision between the judicial system and its pathway to addressing medical error and CRP programs.

PRESENTERS: Cindy Jacobs, RN, JD

OBJECTIVES:

1. Describe the basics of how the tort system operates in a medical error/adverse outcome situations
2. Describe the basics and how, when, and why CRP “apology laws,” “mandatory disclosure” laws/requirements, and healthcare licensing systems intersect and/or collide with the tort system
3. Identify key points to assist healthcare professionals in navigating intersections and collisions

Doctors and Litigation is a website produced by Dr. Gita Pensa, an Emergency Medicine physician at Brown was a defendant for 12 years, and regularly speaks on the topic at conferences and has a podcast “Doctors in Litigation: the ‘L’ word.”

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) started collaborating together to utilize its combined resources and knowledge to further  patient safety efforts and create safety systems in various healthcare settings.

The Collaborative for Accountability and Improvement and the Foundation for Healthcare Quality hosted a two-day retreat in Seattle, Washington (09/2017) in which administrators and healthcare providers discussed ways to advance communication and resolution programs (CRPs) and other resources in Northwest Hospitals to increase patient safety and communication among hospital leadership, attorneys, and health insurers.