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24 Apr 2009Next month I will be co-presenting on an American Health Lawyer Association Teleconference on the topic of HIPAA Privacy Regulation Fundamentals – An Introductory Course.
The teleconference is scheduled for May 13, 2009, 1:00 – 2:30 pm EST. My co-presenter is Rebecca L. Williams of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP and the moderator will be Phyllis Granade [...]
Many hospitals prefer so-called “closed” intensive care units solely managed by intensive care specialists.
The reason being that specialists can supposedly better adhere to quality measures, and hence lower costs, which are goals that hospital administrators pine for.
Would you rather have your kids get measles or autism?
That’s the choice that anti-vaccine proponent Jenny McCarthy lays out on the talk show circuit. But in a LA Times column, pediatrician Rahul Parikh comments, “At best, that’s a false choice; at worst, it’s a sick, horrible wish for her or anybody else’s child.”
He further [...]
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