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A 1930 Medical Record

I was recently in my hometown of New Martinsville visiting my dad, a retired family physician. When I arrived he had waiting for me a copy of one of my grandfather's medical records from the 1930s. My grandfather, Dr. Albert Coffield, practiced rural medicine in Wetzel County, West Virginia from 1911 until his death in 1936.My dad told me the following
Posted on Health Care Law Blog on November 19, 2009 at 10:13 PM

Greg Piche' To Speak on Functional Brain Imagery in address to Colorado Trial Lawyers Association.

Greg Piche" will address the Colorado Trial Lawyer Association at their Program entitled "Simple Solutions for Success in Brain Injury Cases" on November 20, 2009. The program is being held at the Four Points by Sheraton SE, in Denver. His subject will be "The Effective Use of Functional Brain Imagery...
Posted on Healthcare Law Blog on November 19, 2009 at 8:27 PM

EMRs: the privacy concerns connected with electronic medical records seem to be getting greater and more visible play these days. There is, no doubt, a trade-off in privacy whenever medical information is in electronic format.
Posted on HIPAA Blog on November 19, 2009 at 7:21 PM

What to do in case of a breach: I've done a lousy job of keeping up with this, but this is the last part of a really nice series by Dom Nicastro on how to avoid breaches, what to do when one happens, and how to follow up.
Posted on HIPAA Blog on November 19, 2009 at 7:09 PM

Bankruptcy Claims Against Peanut Corporation of America Total 154 in Salmonella Outbreak

AP reports today that the bankruptcy trustee says claims have been filed for 154 people who say they were sickened by a salmonella outbreak traced to a Virginia peanut company. Peanut Corp. of America filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy amid fallout from the outbreak, which left about 700 people sick and was linked to at least nine deaths. The outbrea
Posted on Food Poison Blog on November 19, 2009 at 4:19 PM

Health Care Social Media Legal Issues and Strategy Webinar

Today's HIPAA and Your Social Media Strategy webinar, which I presented together with Jamie Verkamp of (e)Merge, was a success. We had a good turnout, interesting questions and engaging discussion. Here is a version of the slide deck I used...
Posted on HealthBlawg on November 18, 2009 at 3:18 PM

An ounce of prevention

Today's Boston Globe reports on a feature of the Massachusetts universal health care law that may be replicated at the national level: MassHealth -- the Massachusetts Medicaid program -- has been covering the costs for smoking cessation counseling and medications...
Posted on HealthBlawg on November 18, 2009 at 12:55 PM

Fairbank Farms Sickens at Least Four in Maine

According to AP, Maine officials are reminding consumers to check their freezers for recalled ground beef after four people were hospitalized for E. coli poisoning. Last month, Fairbank Farms of Ashville, N.Y., recalled almost 546,000 pounds of fresh ground beef that had been distributed in September to stores from North Carolina to Maine. Federal offi
Posted on e.Coli Blog on November 18, 2009 at 3:59 AM

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