The Readmore 2014

Who says HIPAA law and health care technology (aka e-lectric-medical records) are boring topics. Health IT can be fun!If you are missing HIMSS08, check out the HIStalk HISsies Awards 2008 (video) courtesy of the Healthcare IT Transition Group and HITCHtv. Great stuff for those interested in the best and worst of Health IT (or as Mr. HIStalk prefers...

My health colleagues over at change:health (Christopher and Robert) and Organized Wisdom (Steve and Unity) along with Within3, the founding members, have worked together to release a new open standard dCard (doctor card) to establish basic e-standards for the collecting, storing and sharing of physician information. The dCard is also designed as a...

Jay Parkinson and Scott Shreeve give those of us not attending a glimpse into the happenings at HIMSS Orlando. I particularly enjoyed Dr. Parkinson's round soap theory of health care IT. For more from HIMSS check out HIStalk.As I travel I aways wonder what happens to all the "once used" soaps. Do they just re-wrap the...

The New York Times Technology Section reports on a pilot project between Gooogle and the Cleveland Clinic in an article, Google to Store Patients' Health Records.The article indicates the pilot project will involve a volunteer patient group transferring their personal health records so that they are available via Google Health, a new health record...

Congrats to fellow health law blogger, David Harlow at HealthBlawg who does a wonderful job weaving together a special Valentine's Day edition of Grand Rounds. David's edition gets to the heart of the matter and includes a wide range of posts - covering the love hormone, the Dead, death from Q-tips, Lupercalia and so much more. Thanks David for including...

Tomorrow I'm off to attend the American Health Lawyers Association's Physicians and Hospitals Law Institute in Orlando tomorrow. Looking forward to the Florida warmth as the temperature here in West Virginia dips into the single digits tonight.If your interested in the law of health care the AHLA is the group to join. I highly recommend any of their...

Blogs, wikis, social bookmarking and social networking for dummies courtesy of Pew Trusts' e-patients.net. Simple explanations and visual demonstrations to better understand the basic concepts.I've watched a couple of these before -- but have not seen a post with them conveniently in one place. Again the power of social networking (e-social improvement...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently modified its website and included a new Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) section under the Physician Self Referral (Stark) section. CMS added 12 new Stark FAQs on January 31, 2008. A number of these new FAQs relate to the new Stark III regulation...

Amy Tenderich of Diabetes Mine explores the Health 2.0 Explosion in this week's edition of Grand Rounds, Vol. 4, No 20. If you are interested in health care social networking and health 2.0 topics don't miss reading this week's edition.Great job Am...

Just pick up the latest news from Greg Piche of the Holland & Hart Healthcare Law Blog about the pending libel lawsuit against an anonymous blogger filed by Paris Regional Medical Center, a subsidiary of Essent. For some background on the case check out Jeff Drummond's past post Hospital Sues Blogger.The libel lawsuit filed last year by Paris...