"Health & Medical News"

The Florida Supreme Court ignored decades of peer review protections when it ruled March 6 to allow patients to examine records on past adverse medical incidents, physicians and hospital organizations say.

The 4-3 high court decision says a state constitutional amendment giving patients access to records related to adverse medical incidents applies retroactively and opens up related peer review documents created before the amendment passed via ballot measure in November 2004.

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Washington — Federal regulators have proposed sweeping patient safety rules to give physicians and others a confidential, voluntary way to report medical errors and near mistakes. Several health care organizations applauded the release of the long-awaited regulations but want a closer look before making a final judgment.

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California insurance regulators ordered the state Blues to stop using “confidentiality agreements” they said deprive physicians and hospitals of their rights to fair representation during contract negotiations. But doctors worry the cease-and-desist order the state Dept. of Managed Health Care issued Nov. 1 does not go far enough.

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