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Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Solving for Physician Burnout: How Organizations Can Deploy AI Solutions to Effectively Support Physician Workloads and Avoid...

This series explores legal issues related to physician burnout and potential solutions. Our first post addressed how healthcare organizations can foster the psychological safety and emotional wellbeing of their physicians....more

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New CMS EMTALA Portal Signals CMS Continued Focus on Enforcement Fight Against State Abortion Bans

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On May 21, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a new option on CMS.gov to allow individuals to more easily file an Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) complaint. Before launching the...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Hackers Increasingly Leveraging Threats to Patients to Pressure Health Organizations to Pay Ransom

Cyberhackers—potentially frustrated by their limited ability to extort ransom from health care entities in attacks—have started extorting the patients themselves, threatening them with the release of information or...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: December 2023

Report on Patient Privacy 23, no. 12  (December, 2023) Northwell Health in New York and Cook County Health in Chicago each experienced impacts from a breach at Nevada-based transcription company Perry Johnson & Associates...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Webinar] Improving Research Compliance through Patient-Centric Approaches - November 30th, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm CT

Learning objectives - Evaluate financial toxicity, its impact on patients, the organization, and compliance - Explore ways to prevent and reduce financial toxicity to address compliance risks - Demonstrate ways to improve...more

Butler Snow LLP

Health Care Due Diligence: An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure

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Due diligence properly performed in connection with the purchase and sale of a health care entity is simply different—vastly so—than due diligence performed in other contexts. Failure to recognize this reality can lead to...more

Moore & Van Allen PLLC

Social Inequities as Enterprise Risks for Health Care Organizations

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How a health care organization responds to demands for corporate social justice may affect its ability to achieve performance goals. Racial, gender, and other inequities function as enterprise risks for health care...more

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Consents During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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The COVID-19 pandemic has many healthcare providers wondering whether they can suspend their consent and admission processes.  Although state and federal regulators have waived some consent requirements to provide greater...more

Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

Guidance from CMS on Access to Care, Visitation, and Discharge of COVID-19 Patients

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently issued guidance in response to questions from the hospital provider community concerning Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19). CMS provides useful guidance on some of...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

FDA Final Guidance Document “Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies: Modifications and Revisions Guidance for Industry”

On July 9, 2019, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) released the final guidance document “Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies: Modifications and Revisions Guidance for Industry,” which provides information...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

FDA Issues Final Guidance For Medical Device Exchange of Patient Information

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued guidance yesterday (September 6, 2017) entitled “Design Considerations and Pre-Market Submission Recommendations for Interoperable Medical Devices,” which is intended to “assist...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

PATIENT PRIVACY IN AN ERA OF SOCIAL MEDIA

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The rise of social media has introduced new opportunities and new legal challenges for companies in the health care industry. Attorneys Seth Northrop and Sharon Roberg-Perez discuss the legal issues faced by care providers,...more

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