ASPECTS OF RISK MANAGEMENT SUPPORT FOR AN EMERGENCY-MEDICINE PHYSICIAN WORKSTATION

Emergency departments are high risk sites for malpractice events. EMst ation(TM) is an Emergency Medicine Physician Workstation that incorpor ates tools to reduce malpractice risk in real time (at the time of doc umentation). Based on a Microsoft Windows 3.1 interface, physicians ar e led through color-coded templates addressing known failure modes in emergency medicine. Risk management opportunities available at the tim e of charting when the patient is often still in the department allowi ng real time risk reduction are explored.