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Ann Miller RN MHA
[Executive-Director]

I believe you can document a good faith attempt to provide an informed consent by setting up on your website a section explaining relevant alternatives and risks for podiatric medical procedures. Before patients come to your office, make sure they sign a form that says they reviewed all the information on your website, including every relevant alternative and risk that is listed on your website regarding all podiatric medical treatments and podiatric surgical treatments.

This form should be signed again, right before every time such a podiatric treatment, medical or surgical, is performed. For example, on some of my websites, I have disclaimers and I specify that there are no guarantees.

Source: PMNews, September 01, 2009 #3,637
Daniel Chaskin, DPM
[Ridgewood, NY]
podiatrist1@optonline.net

Good thoughts for the next generational leap in quality improvement for informed consent technology. We agree with many of them.

However, videos are static and passive activities. True informed consent is an active and educational process between surgeon and patient. And, a huge benefit and real feature of our http://www.ePodiatryConsentForms.com is the ability to collaboratively customize them for both doctor and patient – in true Health 2.0 fashion. Finally, out templates are inexpensive, and easy to use [KISS].

We appreciate your “outside the box” thinking. But, at this time, videos are not on the radar screen of [CMS] and [JCAHO]. But, the movement to make the consent process more patient-friendly, informed, patient-specific and standardized in [AHRQ] style and format, is indeed afoot.

Ann Miller; RN, MHA
[Executive Director]

One of the best ways to provide detailed information on all alternative treatments and risk associated with them is through the use of “informed consent” videos. The videos make sure that you are delivering to the patient complete and verifiable information each and every time. The video can de delivered to the patient in the treatment room and you have them sign a consent form acknowledging they viewed the video; the video can also be delivered via a kiosk in the waiting room or patient counseling room with an electronic signature collected at the end of the video; and finally, the video can be delivered to the patient via the practice’s website, again collecting an electronic signature acknowledging the video.

Many other medical disciplines already use this methodology to provide informed consent information to patients. This may be a project for PICA and other insurers to look at and have all the videos reviewed by council to provide complete legal coverage.

Source: PMNews, September 01, 2009 #3,637
Raymond Posa, MBA
[The Mantra Group]

The software is designed for IBM compatible personal computers [PCs], and Macintosh computers, running the free Adobe Acrobat Reader® utility program.

The software will not run under Windows NT™, or on other networks, LANs, WANs or servers. The program is not designed to be run from a network server and should be loaded on a stand-alone personal computer (PC), or Macintosh computer, only.

Chief Technology Officer