Health Care Law Blog
"Keeping an eye on health care law. Thoughts and comments on the health care industry, privacy, security, technology and other odds and ends. ...
"Focused on helping health care providers weave through the numerous and often overlapping state and federal regulations governing the health care industry and assisting them in business issues. Interested in the application of technology to the practice of law and medicine, including issues involving privacy of health data, social networking and the evolution and adoption of electronic medical record systems and other uses of technology to make health care better in the future for you and me"
Author: Bob Coffield is a lawyer in Charleston, W.Va.
Blawg Related Categories: Health Law • Legal Information
Recent Posts from Health Care Law Blog
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Health Care Cost Rising In 2009
Sandra Block of USA Today Money reports that the average amount employees will pay for health care is expected to increase 8.9% in 2009. Her column also provides good advice on how to try to…
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PROTEX: Cardiac Innovation From West Virginia
Today's Charleston Gazette features an article on a Charleston based medical technology company, Nexeon MedSystems.Mark Bates, M.D., CEO and interventional cardiologist at CAMC has developed a "pro-healing" stent that is lined with protein. The device…
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Dr. Val Launches Getting Better With Dr. Val
Val Jones, M.D. has a new home at Getting Better with Dr. Val. Congratulations to Dr. Val on the launch of her hew health care blog.Check out her welcome message and the official press release.…
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Health 2.0: Stay Focused on the Goals
Ben Heywood, co-founder of PatientsLikeMe, outlines simple (but difficult) goals that those in the health 2.0 space must accomplish. Based on his post I take it that he highlighted these during his keynote address at…
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HR 6898: The Health-e Information Technology Act of 2008
Jen McCabe Gorman at Health Management RX brought attention to a new House of Representative Bill (HR 6898) focused on electronic health information introduced in the 110th Congress by Congressman Pete Stark. The bill was…
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California Health Data Privacy and Security Bills Signed
Last week two new California data privacy and security bills were signed into law. Senate Bill 541 and Assembly Bill 211 set new breach disclosure standards and require security controls for preventing unauthorized access to…
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Medical Blogger Dr. Wes Subpoenaed Over Blog Comment
The New York Personal Injury Law Blog relays a incident involving a subpoena issued to a medical blogger related to anonymous comments made on his blog.The incident involved medical blogger, Westby Fisher, MD (Dr. Wes),…
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FSB: Best Lawyers in America 2009
This past week I learned that I was again selected by my peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2009 in the field of "Health Care Law". In all, seven lawyers from Flaherty,…
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Dr. Val Guest Post: Straight Jackets Issued To All Hospital Patients Over Age 65?
Below is a guest post from fellow health care blogger, Val Jones, M.D, on the topic of the new Medicare "never events." For other recent posts by Dr. Val - check out the recent Dr.…
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PHR Certification Criteria: Public Comments Being Accepted
Josh Seidman, president of Center for Information Therapy, of provides an update of the status of Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology's (CCHIT) process for certification of personal health records (PHRs) over at The Health…