New ASTM Audit Trail Production Standard: An Interview with Nursine Jackson
In 2017, ASTM, an international standard organization, withdrew standard ASTM E2147 – 01, the Standard Specification for Audit and...
Will patient advocates and healthcare transparency change healthcare law?
Leilani Schweitzer shared her emotional experience about losing her child at Stanford University Hospital. The machines that her baby...
Do you have the complete medical record? A discovery plan can help.
You practice healthcare law and just received a patient’s medical record. How can you be sure this is the complete medical record? Unless...
A Decade after the HITECH Act, CMS’s Verma Reinforces Health Data Interoperability
It will be almost a decade since the enactment of the milestone HITECH Act in 2009 (via ARRA), which promoted EHR adoption and bolstered...
Senate bills include ‘common sense’ mandates around PDMPs and e-prescribing
Provisions of two bills introduced in the Senate this week feature new requirements for prescription drug monitoring programs and...
Epic sued over millions in alleged anesthesia over-billing; Company stands by system
"Healthcare IT giant Epic Systems has been hit with a False Claims Act suit that alleges the company’s billing system double bills the...
A veteran died as a nurse’s aide played video games instead of checking on him, report says
"The nurse’s aide responsible for monitoring him overnight didn’t check on Bill Nutter on the night he died. Instead, she was playing...
Florida shutters nursing home after finding staff later edited overheated patients' medical reco
After nine deaths at the Hollywood Hills nursing home, Florida finally issued an emergency license suspension. The nursing home lost air...
Out-of-Control Plastic Surgeons' Snapchat Hijinks Are Putting Patients at Risk
"Plastic surgeons can get a lot of business through social media, but some surgeons take the entertainment aspect to extremes: dancing on...
WI Health System Suing Cerner for $16M for Faulty Software
"Agnesian Healthcare in Wisconsin is suing Cerner for more than $16 million in losses due to allegedly faulty billing software."-EHR...
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