As part of the collaboration, researchers at UCSF will analyze evidence-based patient safety practice, safety of health information technology-related policy and artificial intelligence. UCSF researchers Julia Adler-Milstein, PhD, associate professor of medicine, and Urmimala Sarkar, MD, associate professor of medicine, will lead the research team.
“The primary goal of the partnership is to discover and disseminate new insights into risk mitigation strategies and patient safety by connecting top-tier UCSF researchers and unique resources and expertise from The Doctors Company,” Dr. Adler-Milstein said in a news release emailed to Becker’s Hospital Review.
The Doctors Company insures 82,000 physicians in the U.S.
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