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Surprise! HIPAA audit! 2008-03-03 23:16:34 It appears that HHS has engaged PriceWaterhouseCoopers to perform HIPAA compliance audits at hospitals that have been the subject of complaints under the security rule. They'll start with about 10 hospitals, and results will be posted on the HHS website... Read more:Surprise
Blawg Review #149 is up at Antitrust Review 2008-03-03 07:36:27 This week's edition of Blawg Review, up at Antitrust Review, delivers something for everyone: all you ever wanted to know about the EU's $1.3 billion fine imposed on Microsoft, Obama's stance on Social Security tax caps, Roger Clemons' lawyer, Battlestar...
David Harlow quoted on compliance with anti-kickback rules 2008-02-25 11:52:42 I was interviewed for the current Part B Insider article on anti-kickback compliance (p. 3 of the issue linked to here) in light of a recent OIG report on enforcement. Check it out. As I tell folks over and over... Read more:David
Another Blawg Review from a large rectangular state 2008-02-25 07:08:57 The always entertaining Brett Trout hosts this week's Blawg Review at his BlawgIT -- second Iowese in two weeks to host the carnival. Must be something in the water out there. -- David Harlow Read more:large
Google PHR roll-out: how personal will a personal health record be? 2008-02-24 21:34:31 Last week, Google
and the Cleveland Clinic announced a pilot of the Google personal health record (under 10,000 patients), touted by Cleveland Clinic as a means to help its snowbird patients keep track of their medical records scattered across multiple...
SEIU's new tactics 2008-02-22 08:41:48 This week, fellow Boston health care blogger Paul Levy (Running a Hospital) continues to chronicle the thrust-and-parry between SEIU and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he is CEO, as the SEIU's tactics
get some ink in the NY...
Health Wonk Review is up at GoozNews 2008-02-20 22:22:32 This week's Health
Wonk Review covers a lot of territory and is ably hosted by Merrill Goozner at GoozNews. -- David Harlow
Medblogging and privacy issues hit the mainstream media 2008-03-13 19:49:16 . . . Well, at least NPR's Morning Edition. Is that MSM? This morning's piece on medblogging ethics included interviews with a couple of medbloggers, who blog at Kevin MD and Wachter's World. (Kevin hit the MSM daily double today:... Read more:media
David Harlow quoted in Mass. Medical Law Report's story on retail clinics 2008-03-17 13:29:04 I spoke with Eric Berkman as he reported the lead story
on retail clinics in the current issue of Massachusetts Medical Law Report, as did a number of other authorities on the subject. Massachusetts recently promulgated "limited service" clinic regulations... Read more:David
St. Patrick's Day Blawg Review 2008-03-17 07:53:16 It's Evacuation Day here in Boston (a local holiday with roots in the Revolutionary War which, thanks to good timing, was adopted by local Irish pols in years past; state and county offices are closed), so there's time aplenty to... Read more:Patrick
Grand Rounds is up 2008-03-18 12:30:22 This week's Western-themed edition of Grand
-Rounds
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is up at Polite Dissent. -- David Harlow
Health Wonk Review is up at Managed Care Matters 2008-03-20 12:45:05 Joe Paduda kvetches about the weather in New England and does his usual bang-up job hosting the latest edition of Health
Wonk Review, which covers health care reform, pharma, EHRs and the usual grab bag of issues. -- David Harlow
Medicare trigger pulled again . . . yawn 2008-03-26 20:25:46 So, for the third year in a row, those wild and crazy Medicare Trustees issued their report and have let us know we're living beyond our means. The Medicare funding warning was first trigger
ed by the 2007 report and is...
NHIN, Google Health, HealthVault: even dwarves started small 2008-03-30 19:55:59 Last week, ONCHIT COO Charles Friedman said NHIN integration with Google
's PHR and Microsoft's Health
Vault is in the cards. He didn't say much else about the integration, adding yet another layer to the vaporware sensibility attaching to the two big...
The Lipitor marketing machine rolls on -- powered by SEIU? 2008-03-30 18:52:11 First Jarvik, now the SEIU. See Maggie Mahar's posts on the SEIU hawking Lipitor. They say a rogue operative got out ahead of official SEIU policy, but the facts Maggie pulled together thus far on her HealthBeat blog suggest the...
Blaargh Review; World Health Day Blawg Review here at HealthBlawg next week 2008-04-01 11:02:15 Avast! This week's Blawg Review, up at Declarations and Exclusions, showcases George Wallace's deep-seated desire to be a pirate. This brings to mind the old Monty Python vocational guidance counselor sketch: Don't quit your day job, George! See you back... Read more:World
, Health
NHIN, Google Health, HealthVault: even dwarves started small 2008-03-30 19:55:59 Last week, ONCHIT COO Charles Friedman said NHIN integration with Google
's PHR and Microsoft's Health
Vault is in the cards. He didn't say much else about the integration, adding yet another layer to the vaporware sensibility attaching to the two big...
The Lipitor marketing machine rolls on -- powered by SEIU? 2008-03-30 18:52:11 First Jarvik, now the SEIU. See Maggie Mahar's posts on the SEIU hawking Lipitor. They say a rogue operative got out ahead of official SEIU policy, but the facts Maggie pulled together thus far on her HealthBeat blog suggest the...
Medicare trigger pulled again . . . yawn 2008-03-26 20:25:46 So, for the third year in a row, those wild and crazy Medicare Trustees issued their report and have let us know we're living beyond our means. The Medicare funding warning was first trigger
ed by the 2007 report and is...
Health Wonk Review is up at Managed Care Matters 2008-03-20 12:45:05 Joe Paduda kvetches about the weather in New England and does his usual bang-up job hosting the latest edition of Health
Wonk Review, which covers health care reform, pharma, EHRs and the usual grab bag of issues. -- David Harlow
David Harlow quoted in Mass. Medical Law Report's story on retail clinics 2008-03-17 13:29:04 I spoke with Eric Berkman as he reported the lead story
on retail clinics in the current issue of Massachusetts Medical Law Report, as did a number of other authorities on the subject. Massachusetts recently promulgated "limited service" clinic regulations... Read more:David
St. Patrick's Day Blawg Review 2008-03-17 07:53:16 It's Evacuation Day here in Boston (a local holiday with roots in the Revolutionary War which, thanks to good timing, was adopted by local Irish pols in years past; state and county offices are closed), so there's time aplenty to... Read more:Patrick
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