How about a NH Medical Commision to study medical errors?

Sounds good to me.  Currently when a medical error takes place, a hospital in New Hampshire can investigate that error and not have to reveal the investigation in court as part of a lawsuit.  That is because you want to encourage hospitals to fix problems that come up in that investigation.  If the investigation could be used against the hospital in court then they wouldn’t do it.

So now the idea is to create a Commission that studies medical errors and SHARES the results between hospitals.  That way an error that occurs in Manchester might be investigated and the cause of the problem solved. Then through this commission that solution gets shared with hospitals all over the state in Laconia, Concord, Portsmouth…wherever.  Those hospitals can then implement the improvements and make medical care safer all over New Hampshire

Source:  NH Public Radio

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