NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Some 3,000 people attended the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management's 2012 Annual Conference held Oct. 7-10 in National Harbor, Md.
Topics discussed included reducing on-site patient and employee safety risks, updating cyber security and health record management systems, tracking trends in medical professional liability and adapting risk management strategies to comply with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Next year's conference will be held Oct. 27-30 at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas. For more information, go to www.ashrm.org.
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Reduced health care utilization, state-level tort reforms and broad economic factors have held market conditions for medical malpractice insurance largely in check during the past few years, but panel discussions and industry reports distributed recently at the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management's 2012 conference in National Harbor, Md., warned that those trends could be on the verge of reversing themselves.