Medical errors come in various forms, and they can occur at any stage of the healthcare process. Some common types of medical errors include diagnostic errors, medication errors, surgical errors, and ...

Medical errors have personally affected many doctors and members of the general public, yet neither group thinks the mistakes are a major health care problem, according to a new survey. The study, ...

True or false? A trip to the doctor’s is guaranteed to make you feel better. The answer is false, unfortunately, as all-too-common issues like medical errors can send patients home feeling worse than ...

Yale develops AI to curb pathology errors by cross-referencing reports with medical records, enabling pathologists to ...

(SALT LAKE CITY)—It's unknown how many errors are made diagnosing medical diseases and conditions each year, but research has shown that such mistakes contribute to approximately 10 percent of patient ...

Lawmakers should approve funding in next year’s state budget for the Betsy Lehman Center to implement its road map to improve safety in health care. Six-month-old Jackson Kekula was brought to Boston ...

Every day, as a doctor in private practice, I listen to stories of patients' medical mishaps. I tend to weed out stories of botched procedures, ignored symptoms, and deep betrayals from medical ...

Reclamere – As the first Information Security Manager at a fairly large financial institution, I lived by trial and error for a while. Admittedly, I made mistakes ...

The directory, intended to help older Americans navigate Medicare Advantage open enrollment, produces conflicting responses ...

Three reporters from major papers - WashPost, LAT, WSJ - asked for the 834 error rate. None of us got answers. Frustrating. The figure is cumulative, covering all of ...

While thousands of Americans had trouble signing up for health insurance following a shaky rollout of Healthcare.gov, some of those who were able to have encountered a new set of errors. The ...