NAPA, Calif. & WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Doctors Company, the nation’s largest malpractice insurer, and QuantiaMD, the largest social learning and collaboration platform for physicians, today announced a partnership to give physicians expanded opportunities to collaborate on patient safety and medical malpractice issues presented by industry experts.
Physicians who are members of QuantiaMD’s online physician community and collaboration platform can now access The Doctors Company’s page. On this site, physicians will find the latest in articles and videos by industry experts on timely patient safety and malpractice issues. Currently, the page features “Pending Malpractice Claims Consume Physicians’ Careers”, a video by Richard E. Anderson, MD, FACP, Chairman and CEO of The Doctors Company, and “A Tragic Lesson in Drug Safety” with David B. Troxel, MD, medical director of The Doctors Company. Physicians have the ability to share insights with each other about these topics of concern to healthcare professionals.
“As the industry leader in social media, The Doctors Company is proud to offer another opportunity for physicians to connect and collaborate on patient safety and medical malpractice issues,” said Stacy Schultz, VP of marketing for The Doctors Company. “Through this collaborative platform, we are providing QuantiaMD’s 170,000 members with insights from healthcare industry experts that we anticipate will generate comment and knowledge-sharing.”
“We are thrilled to be working with The Doctors Company in such an innovative way, applying social technologies to help physicians learn and collaborate across the country,” said Eric Schultz, Executive Chairman of QuantiaMD. “Our platform and processes will drive engagement of our physician members with the Doctors Company’s content and resources, raising awareness and understanding of these important topics. We look forward to evolving the patient safety content, tools and services with the Doctors Company and extending our respective leadership in this space.”
About QuantiaMD
QuantiaMD, the largest social learning and collaboration platform for physicians, is transforming the way healthcare is delivered. By applying the latest social technologies to medicine, QuantiaMD is modernizing how physicians work together and interact with the major participants in healthcare, including hospitals, ACOs and life sciences companies. On QuantiaMD, 170,000+ physicians share real-life experiences from clinical practices nationwide, in minutes, and engage directly with healthcare institutions to meet a variety of objectives that reduce costs and improve the quality of care. Built from the ground up for how physicians practice today, QuantiaMD’s scalable platform is fully mobile, secure and easy-to-use. To learn more, visit www.QuantiaMD.com. For client solutions, visit www.QuantiaMD.com/clientsolutions.
About The Doctors Company
Founded by doctors for doctors in 1976, The Doctors Company (www.thedoctors.com) is relentlessly committed to advancing, protecting, and rewarding the practice of good medicine. The Doctors Company is the nation’s largest medical malpractice insurer, with 73,000 members and $4 billion in assets, and is rated A by A.M. Best Company and Fitch Ratings.
Follow The Doctors Company on Twitter at @doctorscompany for industry trends, subscribe to its YouTube site to hear from industry experts, connect with The Doctors Company on LinkedIn to engage with company leaders, and find information on its key milestones and achievements on Facebook.