From AI scribes and coding habits to the claims payers quietly cut, these are the lessons physicians can take from four days of sessions and interviews at the Medical Group Management Association's centennial meeting.
Commentary|Videos|February 19, 2026
Safety under pressure: Every day is a high-risk day
Author(s)Austin Littrell
Fact checked by: Keith A. Reynolds
Andrea Greco explains why duress alerts now spike across the full week — and what that means for how practices plan for safety.
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Greco says the takeaway is blunt: there is no “quiet day” anymore. Every day carries real risk of violence in care settings. That reality, she argues, should push leaders to move beyond one-off fixes and instead build a safety program that is data-driven and continuous.
Her advice to practices and health systems: stay on top of your own alert data, analyze patterns regularly and plan as if any shift, on any day, could be the one when things escalate.
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