Outpatient Diagnostic Test and Referral Tracking by Physicians

2005-01-28T14:52:00.000-08:00

Hello, I want to talk you about how important it is to both your health and your medical doctors health to ensure that his office follows up on any diagnostic tests and referrals ordered on you and your family. How many of you have gone to your physician and had them give you a script to get say a blood test done or an x-ray performed? I'm sure everyone reading this has had this happen. Well let me ask you, did your physician or their staff call you with the results? Most likely the answer is no. Did your physician's staff tell you "if we don't call you assume the results were normal" That method is used by the majority of physician offices throughout the United States and is considered by most every malpractice insurance company to be the wrong way to handle test results. Too many times patients have had negative reults come back and were never notified. That may be a significant contributing factor to why our country has 19 states that are considered "Crisis States" becasue of physicians medical malpractice premiums are going through the roof. Our blog wants your input on this very important national matter. If you have a story to tell from any view point (patient, physician, family member, insurance company or insurance agents) please let all of us know about it. This blog is sponsored by www.odt3.com the nations first Patient Safety/Medical Liability Risk Management Tool designed to track each and every Diagnostic Test and Referral ordered by Physicians to promote better patient safety an significantly enhance collaboration of patient care.

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Outpatient Diagnostic Test and Referral Tracking by Physicians