Gregory Piche – Holland & Hart

The rise of integrated health delivery systems promises to transform healthcare deliver in the United States through the disruptive and transformational power of technology and systems oriented care…more

Most medical malpractice cases require a plaintiff to retain an expert to testify as to the standard of care that the defendant should have met. States vary considerably as to the required qualifications of a testifying expert…more

WITH THE ADVENT OF HEALTH CARE REFORM DO WE NEED TO GIVE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN TAX EXEMPTIONS TO NOT PROFIT HOSPITALS WITHOUT A MORE DEFINED PUBLIC PURPOSE FOR THEIR EXISTENCE?…more

Health Care Reform's new Accountable Care Organizations require a difficult to achieve restructuring of clinical medical practice to incorporate peer accountability, technology and effective incentives…more

Clinical integration of hospitals and physician practices is back in the picture after having failed in the managed care experiments of the 90s. Can they get it right this time??…more

The Medical Device Excise Tax and other product testing provisions in the Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act raises hard choices between cost control and access to innovative and game changing devices…more

Discussion of the impact of respect on the rise of intractable conflict…more

The Health Care Reform bill passed by Congress adds shifts the playing field in anti-kickback litigation by lowering the intent requirement to achieve a successful prosecution…more

Federal and state initiatives support expansion of broadband extension and insurance coverage for telemedicine services. The way medicine is delivered is rapidly changing…more

Health Reform opponents cries of "unconstitutional" and "undemocratic" to describe Obama Administration's "self executing" rule procedure to subvert Senate filibuster is hypocrisy, not democracy at heart…more

New bill filed in the U.S. House of Representatives proposes separate, fast track approval process at FDA to help terminal or seriously ill patients…more

Colorado legislature draws protests and outrage over new tax on internet downloads of software…more

Summary of interview with German Health Care Czar regarding German healthcare cost control initiatives…more

Irreverant discussion of the new and improved Diagnostic Statisical Manual of Mental Disorders - V…more

Tax Court Rules For the first time that sex change surgery and related therapy can be tax deductible of tax payer can establish Gender Identity Disorder and the necessity for the procedures…more