How a new app may help reduce spine surgeons’ malpractice risk
By Admin | March 26, 2025
Spine surgeons currently face some of the highest malpractice risks of any physician specialty, but one Minnesota-based company is trying to change that.
The inFormed Consent app was created by Dan Kloster, MD, a chronic pain management specialist, with the goal of improving patient understanding of future surgical procedures.
It provides patients with video information of a suggested procedure, and lets them determine whether they feel comfortable moving forward. If so, patients watch a consent video, and the app provides a record of the patient watching the video.
The front-facing camera on the iPad patients use to watch the consent video records the patient and creates a digital record that is stored in their medical record file.
If a consent dispute arises, physicians are equipped with proof that a patient was fully aware of procedure risks.
The company currently provides consent videos for spine, orthopedic, pain management, interventional radiology, plastic surgery, regenerative, bariatric and anesthesia procedures, and is aiming to expand to other specialties.
Brad Hancock, CEO of inFormed Consent and former executive at Johnson and Johnson, Medtronic and St. Jude Medical, connected with...(More)
For more info please read, How a new app may help reduce spine surgeons’ malpractice risk, by Becker's Spine Review
