The Doctors Company and QuantiaMD Team to Encourage Knowledge- Sharing and Collaboration [Health & Beauty Close – Up]

The Doctors Company, a malpractice insurer, and QuantiaMD, a social learning and collaboration platform for physicians, have announced a partnership to give physicians expanded opportunities to collaborate on patient safety and medical malpractice issues presented by industry experts.

In a release, the groups noted:

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."

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