The state Department of Health and Family Services wants to put more public records related to medical errors online, partly in response to the death of a 16-year-old girl at St. Mary’s Hospital Medical Center following a medication mistake.
While lawmakers and hospital associations debate what medical information should be kept private, officials at DHFS are pushing only to make what is already public available on their Web site. Department spokesman Jason Helgerson said this would apply to records such as the investigative report for the St. Mary’s case.
(Law professor Meg Gaines, director of UW-Madison’s Center for Patient Partnerships, is quoted.)