Mike's Top 10 List of RHIO LegalIssues
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Christina ThielstPosted
Wed 22 Oct 2008 9:32pm
At Monday's eHealth InitiativeConnecting Communities Working Group meeting, Mike Skinner, Executive Director of SBCCDE, Inc. presented his Top 10 list of LegalIssues for RHIOs. It is a great list and of value to anyone with an established or budding RHIO.
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10 Ways Alzheimer's Affects LegalIssues
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Carol Bradley BursackPosted
Wed 27 Jan 2010 12:00am
Fellow blogger on OurAlzheimer's, Christine Kennard, wrote an excellent post on Alzheimer's and legal documents. I want to pass it on to you here:
"How do... can affect judgement, their capacity to make decisions and their competency. It is important that caregivers help to protect the legal and human rights of someone
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Family Caregivers Can Have Sibling or LegalIssues If They Don't Keep Good Records
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Carol Bradley BursackPosted
Tue 19 Oct 2010 12:00am
As caregiving duties multiply, you find yourself doing more shopping for your parents. Mom has a harder time getting out so she writes you a check when you bring their groceries over. It's all friendly and reasonably fair. You go on this way for months as caregiving needs grow. Pretty soon you are in full caregiver mode. You talk you ...
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The Supreme Court to Increasingly Confront End-of-Life LegalIssues?
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Thaddeus PopePosted
Tue 29 Jun 2010 2:54pm
is an aging nation in a sense. There's a lot of young people, but the -- one of the largest growing cohorts are people in their 80s. And I know that just from some medical issues I've had in the last few years, it is very expensive to have a hip replacement or to have retinal surgery or to have other things. And people in their 80s have more medical issuesRead on »
Now this has become a legalissu ...
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Medical QuackPosted
Mon 10 Nov 2008 4:17pm
Now this has become a legalissue with the State of California, can this stand with not covering Viagra? It might appear the jury is going to be out on this one for a while and there are other drugs that come in to play with HMO coverage.
What is and what is not covered is becoming a big issue today and how far do you need to drive
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Ethical and LegalIssues in Diagnosis
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Kent BrooksPosted
Sun 26 Sep 2010 12:00am
There are certainly some potential issues that need to be addressed when balancing desires of managed care and the ethical diagnosis and treatment of individuals...., & Callanan, P. (2007). Issues and ethics in the helping professions (8th ed.). Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole.
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Recommended Reading: Recent Legal Scholarship on Issues in Global Public Health
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HealthReformWatch.comPosted
Mon 09 Aug 2010 9:54pm
in the Harvard Law & Policy Review). In this article Lawrence Gostin brings a big picture issue the vast global health gap between rich and poor into perfect focus. Professor Gostin... of a speech), straightforward, and provocative in the best sense of the word. I highly recommend it.
I also highly recommend Kevin Outterson’s The Legal Ecology of Resistance
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ELSI: Ethical, legal, and social issues of genomics
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Dr. Greg F.Posted
Fri 12 Sep 2008 1:38pm
Just returned from a conference in Cleveland, Ohio, dealing with the many different aspects and potential effects of sequencing the human genome. I'll write in the next couple of days about items that particularly interested me.
But first, what is genomics?
I hate to admit it, but when I first joined a group at the Utah Department of Hea ...
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