Frequent Health News
In: Health Care Law
31 Dec 2009Yesterday the Centers for Medicare & Medicare Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) issued two regulations laying the foundation for improving quality, efficiency and safety through meaningful use of certified electronic health record (EHR) technology.
The two regulations are part of the implementation of the EHR incentive [...]
Interesting Tweet HIPAA Breach story coming out of Mississippi involving Governor Haley Barbour. The incident involved a response to Governor Barbour’s tweet by a University Medical Center employee.
Ves Dimov, M.D. at Clinical Cases and Images Blog posts about the story – Single tweet by hospital employee to Mississippi Governor allegedly violates HIPAA, forces her to [...]
In: Health Care Law
22 Dec 2009On March 18, 2010 I will be speaking on Medical Records Law at a seminar in Charleston, West Virginia. The seminar is sponsored by Lorman Educational Services. Joining me for the day long seminar will be three very knowledgeable health care colleagues:
Michael T. Harmon, MPA, CIPP/G, Compliance Specialist for the West Virginia Mutual Insurance Company, [...]
In: Health Care Law
18 Dec 2009Farewell and congratulations go out to fellow health law blogger, Mark Herrmann, (formerly) co-author of the Drug and Device Law Blog and author of The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Practicing Law.
In Mark’s Farewell Post he announced that he is leaving Jones Day after 20 years to become the VP and Chief Counsel – Litigation at Aon [...]
A quick thanks to Elizabeth Damewood-Gaucher author of the Esse Diem Blog for including the Health Care Law Blog on her short list of The Best Blogs You’re Not Reading Yet.
I would agree with her list and glad that am a regular reader of 4 out of the 5. All produce great content and cover [...]
In: Health Concerns
17 Dec 2009What a year this has been! Market meltdown, mortgage defaults, bank failures, bankruptcies, joblessness, and outright fraud. Surely 2010 will be a better year. Who knows, for better or worse we might even get healthcare reform done. …(read more)
In: Health Care Law
15 Dec 2009These days I don’t always get around to religiously reading Blawg Review every week – but I’m glad I took the time to read Ron Coleman’s Blawg Review #242 hosted at Likelihood of Confusion.
In the past I often submitted blog posts to the editor – but have gotten out of the habit. Ron’s post reminded [...]
In: Health Care Law
11 Dec 2009The Florida Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee issued JEAC Opinion 2009-20 on November 19, 2009, indicating that judges may not add lawyers who may appear before the judge as “friends” on a social networking site, nor may judges permit such lawyers to add the judges as their “friend”.
However, the Committee did not entirely ban judges [...]
In: Health Concerns
11 Dec 2009Yesterday, I had the honor of delivering a luncheon keynote address at the LifeScience Alley annual conference and exhibition in Minneapolis. Despite the major snowstorm that swept the Midwest this week, more than 1200 people showed up for this…(read more)
In: Health Care Law
10 Dec 2009The AMANews reports that the Michigan Supreme Court is examining whether the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) preempts state law to allow a defendant physician in a medical liability case to interview the plaintiff/patient’s other treating physicians.
The history and docket information on the case before the Michigan Supreme Court, Andrea L. [...]
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