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You Must Respond Carefully When You Are Served With a Subpoena
Responding to subpoenas is a routine task for risk managers and general counsel, but just because it is routine doesn’t mean it should be taken lightly. There are right and wrong ways to respond, and your actions at this early stage of potential litigation can affect the outcome later.
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Caution: Patients’ Printed Records May Not Match the Electronic Health Record
Most plaintiffs’ attorneys now request audit trails immediately with the first contact for e-discovery, and risk managers often groan when they think of the work involved. However, there is a reason to seek the audit trail for your own benefit: It might show more exculpatory evidence than a paper printout of the same file.
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Church Amendment Protects Abortion Views
The Church Amendment that a physician is citing in her claims that a hospital restricted her speech on abortion normally is invoked by healthcare providers on the other side of the controversial issue, says John E. Petite, JD, an attorney with the law firm Greensfelder in St. Louis.
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Complaint Alleges Effort to Silence Doctor
In the Office for Civil Rights complaint filed by Diane J. Horvath-Cosper, MD, an obstetrician-gynecologist and fellow at MedStar Washington Hospital Center in Washington, DC, she outlines what she says was an insistence by hospital administrators to stop her from talking publicly about abortion.
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Hospital Faces OCR Complaint for Gag Order on Abortion
The case raises important questions about how much a healthcare employer can restrict employees’ private activities.
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Drop Those Falling Rates
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Is It Personal or Just Business Between Aetna, DOJ?
In response to the feds, a letter reveals the insurance juggernaut may be leaving healthcare exchanges over a suit that halted a proposed blockbuster merger.
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The Vitals - August 2016
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Another Call for Transparency in Clinical Trials
The demand for clinical trial transparency and research results continues to gain momentum, as it was recently reported that almost half of the data from randomized clinical trials from four sponsors registered at ClinicalTrials.gov were not available to researchers.
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Report: Socioeconomic Factors Undercut Participation in Internet Studies
Launched by the federal government last year, the Precision Medicine Initiative is a disease prevention and treatment model that is envisioned as linking access to genetic information with the expanding reach of the internet to form research “cohorts” of racially and socially diverse subjects.