Health Law

GE Healthcare IT's SVP and General Manager of eHealth Earl Jones speaks with David Harlow about the connected health care ecosystem

Posted on April 06, 2010
GE Healthcare IT has been working in the years leading up to the HITECH Act on a number of initiatives to enable meaningful use of health care IT -- or as Senior VP and General Manager of eHealth Earl Jones...

GE Healthcare IT's SVP and General Manager of eHealth Earl Jones speaks with David Harlow about the connected health care ecosystem

Posted on April 06, 2010
GE Healthcare IT has been working in the years leading up to the HITECH Act on a number of initiatives to enable meaningful use of health care IT -- or as Senior VP and General Manager of eHealth Earl Jones...

Health Reform enacted; HealthBlawger punked by POTUS

Posted on April 04, 2010
As regular readers of HealthBlawg are well aware, I had my doubts that el Presidente could pull it off once the Dems lost Kennedy's Senate seat, but he did manage to rally the troops and get the sausage version of...

Health Reform enacted; HealthBlawger punked by POTUS

Posted on April 04, 2010
As regular readers of HealthBlawg are well aware, I had my doubts that el Presidente could pull it off once the Dems lost Kennedy's Senate seat, but he did manage to rally the troops and get the sausage version of...

To access this complete feed in the blog feed reader login or register for free.

Blog Carnivals; next Health Wonk Review right here on April 15

Posted on April 01, 2010
This week, health reform looms large in the minds of blog carnival hosts. Evan Falchuk's health reform edition of Grand Rounds is up at his See First blog. Rich Elmore hosts the current Health Wonk Review at his Healthcare Technology...

Blog Carnivals; next Health Wonk Review right here on April 15

Posted on April 01, 2010
This week, health reform looms large in the minds of blog carnival hosts. Evan Falchuk's health reform edition of Grand Rounds is up at his See First blog. Rich Elmore hosts the current Health Wonk Review at his Healthcare Technology...

Peter Neumann, Director, Tufts Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health, speaks with David Harlow about the role of cost-effectiveness research in health care policy

Posted on March 19, 2010
The national debate on health care reform is currently focused on health insurance reform -- coverage, one of the proverbial three legs of the health care reform stool: coverage, cost and quality. In order to bend the cost curve --...

Massachusetts health care cost trends hearings yield data, stir heated debate

Posted on March 17, 2010
The Massachusetts Division of Health Care Finance and Policy and the Attorney General's Office are holding three days of hearings this week on health care cost trends. You may wish to get up to speed by taking a look at...

David Harlow quoted on Electronic Health Records implementation and incentives in Mass. Medical Law Report

Posted on March 16, 2010
Just a few days before the comment period closed on the draft regulations defining meaningful use (see all meaningful use comments), the Massachusetts Medical Law Report ran a piece on the HITECH Act incentives for implementation of electronic health records...

Patient safety not taught in medical school? Lucian Leape Institute releases Unmet Needs: Teaching Physicians to Provide Safe Patient Care

Posted on March 11, 2010
Ten years after the release of the IOM report To Err is Human, which documented the toll taken by medical errors in this country, the question remains: What can be done to reverse the trend of ever-increasing morbidity and mortality...

Patient safety not taught in medical school? Lucian Leape Institute releases Unmet Needs: Teaching Physicians to Provide Safe Patient Care

Posted on March 11, 2010
Ten years after the release of the IOM report To Err is Human, which documented the toll taken by medical errors in this country, the question remains: What can be done to reverse the trend of ever-increasing morbidity and mortality...

John Glaser, CIO of Partners Health Care, speaks with David Harlow about health IT and meaningful use in a $7.9 billion health system

Posted on March 09, 2010
What does a large health system CIO worry about if his system is already fully up to speed in the day-to-day use of EHRs? Using them in ways that improve communication of information across a diverse group of clinicians, and...

John Glaser, CIO of Partners Health Care, speaks with David Harlow about health IT and meaningful use in a $7.9 billion health system

Posted on March 09, 2010
What does a large health system CIO worry about if his system is already fully up to speed in the day-to-day use of EHRs? Using them in ways that improve communication of information across a diverse group of clinicians, and...

HIMSS in Atlanta and online

Posted on March 02, 2010
The HIMSS annual convention going on this week in Atlanta is a 30,000-person blowout of epic proportions (and, yes, there was snow there but not in Boston), with many industry announcements, product launches, and meetings and sessions large and small...

HIMSS in Atlanta and online

Posted on March 02, 2010
The HIMSS annual convention going on this week in Atlanta is a 30,000-person blowout of epic proportions (and, yes, there was snow there but not in Boston), with many industry announcements, product launches, and meetings and sessions large and small...

David Harlow quoted in Part B Insider piece on RACs

Posted on March 01, 2010
The OIG recently reviewed RAC performance to date in identifying fraud (vs. overpayment) and found the RACs wanting. To be fair, the RACs haven't been trained in identifying Medicare fraud. Part B Insider asked me how providers should prepare for...

Diagnostic Radiology Controls: David Harlow Interviews MITA Executive Director Dave Fischer

Posted on February 28, 2010
MITA Executive Director Dave Fischer spoke with HealthBlawg last week about industry efforts to control radiation dose in diagnostic radiology modalities such as CT. A congressional hearing on radiation dose control took place the day after we spoke, and the...

David Harlow quoted in Part B Insider piece on RACs

Posted on February 28, 2010
The OIG recently reviewed RAC performance to date in identifying fraud (vs. overpayment) and found the RACs wanting. To be fair, the RACs haven't been trained in identifying Medicare fraud. Part B Insider asked me how providers should prepare for...

Diagnostic Radiology Controls: David Harlow Interviews MITA Executive Director Dave Fischer

Posted on February 28, 2010
MITA Executive Director Dave Fischer spoke with HealthBlawg last week about industry efforts to control radiation dose in diagnostic radiology modalities such as CT. A congressional hearing on radiation dose control took place the day after we spoke, and the...

MPFS in Crisis: Holding of Claims for Services Paid Under the 2010 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule

Posted on February 26, 2010
Days of Future Passed (or: deja vu all over again). Late Friday, after business hours, CMS pushed the following announcement via its physician information listserv: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is working with Congress, health care providers,...

MPFS in Crisis: Holding of Claims for Services Paid Under the 2010 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule

Posted on February 26, 2010
Days of Future Passed (or: deja vu all over again). Late Friday, after business hours, CMS pushed the following announcement via its physician information listserv: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is working with Congress, health care providers,...

Social Media for Lawyers presentation at Law Practice Management program, Western New England College

Posted on February 26, 2010
I will be presenting a talk today at the Business of Lawyering program at Western New England College's Law and Business Center for Advancing Entrepreneurship. For those who are interested, here are my slides. I would be interested in your...

White House Health Care Summit: Watch it Live

Posted on February 25, 2010
Watch the White House Health Care Summit here (live beginning at 10:00 am EST today, or later), and check out the President's health reform proposal, too. JOIN THE LIVE CHAT VISIT WHITEHOUSE.GOV David Harlow The Harlow Group LLC Health Care...

Social Media for Lawyers presentation at Law Practice Management program, Western New England College

Posted on February 25, 2010
I will be presenting a talk today at the Business of Lawyering program at Western New England College's Law and Business Center for Advancing Entrepreneurship. For those who are interested, here are my slides. I would be interested in your...

White House Health Care Summit: Watch it Live

Posted on February 25, 2010
Watch the White House Health Care Summit here (live beginning at 10:00 am EST today, or later), and check out the President's health reform proposal, too. (Video is archived on this site as well.) JOIN THE LIVE CHAT VISIT WHITEHOUSE.GOV...

HIPAA enforcement: Business Associate Agreement rulemaking needed first - time to plan ahead

Posted on February 22, 2010
After learning of comments on HIPAA enforcement made by a member of the HHS OCR legal staff at an ABA meeting on health care issues, I contacted him directly. Adam Greene confirmed that HITECH Act changes to HIPAA rules regarding...

Massachusetts Health Reform: Is Back-to-the-Future Rate Regulation the Way to Lead the Nation Right Now?

Posted on February 14, 2010
The Massachusetts health reform law, Part II - enacted in 2008 - laid the groundwork for cost control and quality improvement, as a follow-on to the initial legislation's emphasis on achieving near-universal coverage. The legislation authorized several studies -- including...

David Harlow continues the value-based design conversation with Wayne Burton, MD and Cyndy Nayer of the Center for Health Value Innovation

Posted on February 09, 2010
Today we bring you Part II of my conversation with Wayne Burton and Cyndy Nayer of the Center for Health Innovation, where we get into some specific examples of successful programs. The Center represents over 40 million lives, and brings...

Transparency: Too little, too late?

Posted on February 09, 2010
When the President of the United States, allegedly possessed of the best bully pulpit in the free world, needs to go on the Super Bowl pre-game show to attract a big audience, you know that something has gone horribly, horribly...

Wayne Burton and Cyndy Nayer, from the Center for Health Value Innovation, speak with David Harlow about value-based health designs for health improvement and cost savings

Posted on February 08, 2010
I recently spoke with Wayne Burton, MD and Cyndy Nayer. Cyndy is co-founder and President of the Center for Health Value Innovation; Wayne is a member of the Board of Strategic Advisors, and former longtime Corporate Medical Director of JP...

Bloggers, promote your law blog by nominating your blog for inclusion in USLaw.com's Law Blog Directory and RSS Reader. Benefits described.